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Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:31 PM
Is it ever too late to learn something new?
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Artist Original, Colorado, Landscape, Memories, Mountain Lakes, Nature, Painting, Watercolor, Therapy, Inspiration, Plein Air Painter
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Marsha: Posted on Thursday, July 07, 2011 7:31 AM
Where do you, artists, musicians, actors, dancers and lovers, find your inspiration? For myself, visiting local botanical gardens, mountains and canyons breath life into me and then into my desire to paint. I prefer to paint on location. That's the best inspiration of all. There's a connection with the subject that you just can't get with a photograph. I have found that in that connection there is peace. All of the senses are engaged. Memories are formed for a lifetime.
I encourage my students to work from life, use a sketchbook and look for the world most people walk by without noticing.
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Artist Original, Childhood Stories, Colorado, Landscape, Memories, Mountain Lakes, Nature, Painting, Watercolor, Therapy, Recovery, Inspiration
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Marsha: Posted on Thursday, June 09, 2011 5:27 PM
If you are an artist/painter, tell us why you paint. What is your medium and subject?
I can tell you why I paint. It is a necessity. Painting clears my mind of trivial things that steal the life away from me. Painting is also my connection to my God. I am closer to him when I think about the beautiful world he has created and paint what I see. I think a lot of people go through life without noticing all of the intricate details, color combinations and patterns that nature has for our enjoyment. One of my purposes is to point that out to others. That's why I zoom in close a lot of the time.
Painting is also therapeutic. It gave me a place to go when my world was out of control. Growing up was difficult, and only a few years ago I learned I had blocked a huge chunk of it out of my memory. I painted a lot when I was a teen. It was an escape from what was really happening. In some ways it protected me until I was able to face the abuse in a safer place.
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Artist Original, Childhood Stories, Colorado, Landscape, Memories, Mountain Lakes, Nature, Painting, Watercolor, Therapy, Recovery
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Marsha: Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 12:03 PM
The Pass Watercolor Landscape
This unique watercolor landscape began with a memory from childhood spent in Colorado. It’s a place called Buffalo Pass, back country high in the Rocky Mountains. It’s very difficult to get to. There are no paved roads. The last time we were there, we were alone with the land and the trees. When we were little we had a lot of nice memories formed there. It is east of my hometown of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The fast moving rain will come and visit at will in this small western town. This past August it hailed pea sized anomalies. Up on the pass, the lake seems untouched by the things that make other places ordinary.
You begin a landscape with this process. The surface was prepped by wetting Fabriano paper weight bright white paper 140 lb. weight, cold press. And then the selection of colors…green gold, French ultramarine blue, cerulean blue and alizarin crimson. The last is my favorite color it’s the perfect magenta for mixing with any and all colors. It’s a preference of habit from when I was in high school, around 16. The brush family was Windsor Newton Sceptor Gold.
The peaceful evergreen pine is capable of making you hungry for the picnic lunch of Blimpie’s Grinders almost forgotten. We had walked about looking at the different wildflowers of unusual blues and pinks, Colorado Lupine and Columbine, the state flower. If you should go there you will see this painting. Write for an exclusive by Marsha.
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