PAINTING THE LIGHT: Liquid Gold

Monday, May 11, 2009

Liquid Gold

Liquid Gold
5x7, gouache on watercolor paper
NOT FOR SALE

Thought I'd try something different, so I picked up a gouache student starter set yesterday with one of those wonderful A.C. Moore 40% off coupons. This is my first work in gouache. It's an interesting medium, very much like watercolor, but with more vivid colors and better tinting strength. I like its fluidity! I'll probably continue working with it, and eventually will replace those student paints with artist-quality ones. If I can get this good a result with student paints, I can't wait to see what I can do with professional quality gouache.

This little painting will be going with me to SOWA this weekend. Only four days left! By this time on Friday, I'll be on my way to Boston for the weekend. Still have some last-minute stuff to do, but the biggest part of the preparation is winding down. I can't wait for the weekend!

2 comments:

Debra said...: I like the vivid colors in this one!

Good Luck with your show, hope you make lots of $$$!

(If you have time, be sure and take some pics of your Art Walk set-up this weekend for your blog.); May 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM
Painting the Light said...: Will do. Thanks!; May 11, 2009 at 4:04 PM

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I paint colorful New England landscapes and cityscapes in acrylic. You can purchase my original paintings, small prints, and digital photography through my Etsy shops, CityscapesByBreton, ViridianArt, and Heartshots. You can also purchase prints of many of my paintings, in various sizes, at Fine Art America. The link below will take you directly to my shopping cart.

If you're in Maine, and want to check out my work up close and personal, you can find a number of my paintings in their summer home, at the Rock and Art Shop on Route 1A in Ellsworth.

Laurie Breton is a contemporary realism painter who has lived her entire life in Maine and who feels a close connection to the New England landscape. Her paintings of Maine country roads, New England cityscapes, and old houses reflect those deep roots.

Painting came to her late in life. As a child, she loved to draw. But it wasn't until her late thirties that she picked up a paintbrush, began creating art on canvas, and fell in love with painting.

She calls what she does "painting the light" because her paintings reflect her passion for light and shadow and their effects on the landscape. As a self-taught artist, Breton paints what she feels in her heart. Every scene she commits to canvas was chosen because it has struck some deep emotional chord in her, and she tries to infuse her work with that same strong emotion. It is her belief that if she is able to invoke that emotion in just one other person, she’s done her job well.

Over time, certain themes have emerged in her work. As we seek meaning in our busy lives, we tend to overlook the ordinary, the everyday, the familiar places and things that shape who and what we are. Even as we continually seek that elusive "something else," the overlooked ordinary—the innate sense of home—is the reality in which we live our lives. That reality is what Breton tries to paint. She hopes that people will see her art and feel that connection, that "I've been there" feeling, that belief that what she’s captured on canvas is a reality that's deeply and intimately familiar to them. She wants her work to take the viewer to that home-place each of us holds inside.

Her paintings are held in private collections in both the U.S. and abroad.

PAINTING THE LIGHT

Monday, May 11, 2009

Liquid Gold

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