20x20 acrylic
This expansive landscape is a vibrant painting. The fall orange and red trees dress the bog. The palette is an expressive and bold. This area is the Washington Valley region. Love the composition of the forest. There was a beaver swimming by when I was painting this. He gave me the side eye. Tom Thompson was a big influence on this piece.
When I was eight, our school went to a field trip to Strawbery Banke. I fell in love with it then, the gardens, the crowded turn of the century houses. It was such a beautiful escape. Now I live close by and I paint such an amazing part of Portsmouth.Strawbery Banke is the oldest neighborhood in New Hampshire to be settled by Europeans, and the earliest neighborhood remaining in the present-day city of Portsmouth. It features more than 37 restored buildings built between the 17th and 19th centuries in the Colonial, Georgian and Federal style architectures. The darkest colored house is the oldest house in the group. I have a group of historical areas that I am painting, or known as historical paintings. Look out for more!
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