A local inhabitant from Run 1, Bridgewater has put the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley vista on canvas turn after stretch. This artist has been painting for 36 years and her intent is not just to paint personality and bear around oils and easel in eminence ridges and rolling cornfields. This artist again uses hundreds of photos cut from daily newspapers to paint her masterpieces.
According to this artist, the clippings let her put back bleached or nigrescent, and other old colors to her painting sure thing the way doll wants to. Then debutante adds that cutting out photos of animals and objects grant her the chance to paint surpassing and larger scenic paintings. Using a comic book photograph of two millstones dame painted the huge 15 by 4 ft mural on her family room, and cupcake proves it by holding up the worn out newspaper. Grey mill wheels match the rustic millhouse scene right on top of a riverbank.
She makes it clear that all her techniques in painting are used in that huge mural, including the way she use photographs for detailing her wood land animals, farm crops, and weather board buildings. She says she just puts the water in there. Water is not very difficult to use because it dries fast.
Her next painting will be a snow scene, like in the new photo clipping she displayed. The snow painting will be quick and easy. One or two smaller scenes and the mural are the only paintings she has at home. The rest of her works are either sold immediately or given away to friends.
She sells a lot of them to a furniture store in Maryland. And she never turns down a request from neighbors and friends. She said she needs a filing system to keep track of how many orders come her way. Most of her customers come around by Christmas, because her paintings are perfect for gifts.
She was only thirteen years old when first got into painting, thanks to a nice old lady in her neighborhood in Rockingham County. Back then she would pay the lady 25 cents for a lesson and sit with her an entire afternoon. She showed us her very first pallet, which is made from a lightweight board that she and her mother made using a drill and a knife a long time ago. To tell how it was made, a note was decoupage on the old pallet, even if it was smeared with paint all over.
Some six years ago, their church was brought down, but she was able to keep some of the keepsakes on the family room of their house. One wall of the additional room is almost entirely made of glass, through which the afternoon sun shines brightly and through which the river by their house can be seen in clear view. According to her, they wanted to bring the outside on the inside.
When she painted the mural, she had to find something just right to fit the room. Because the children didn ' t like the way the tithe painting shows fall ' s bright foliage in reds, gold and rusts, she had to redo the painting three quarters through completion. According to the artist, she may keep her home as it is in order to drive the focus of her guests only to the mural and nothing else.
