This landscape watercolor painting of the Lamoile River by Laurie Rohner captures the river that meandered in front of our home in Vermont. It is summer and the river is low but you can still catch a glimpse of a kayak being gently paddled down the river. The colors are soft and the painting radiates the heat of the day. To the right are the pines shading the water but I painted the water clear and calm showing the rocks under the softness of the water. It is in contrast to the sunlight shores on the left. I gave a focal point in the center of the painting that brings you back into the painting with the shoreline of the river and the hazy mountain in the distance. This is one of my favorite watercolor landscape paintings.
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A few of my watercolors…
White Lilies
The Pink Lady
Watercolor are my first love. My technique is a process that is long and labor intensive taking many days to complete. I use a technique called glazing. I paint my images several times building and layering the pigments with washes of color. I find it gives the images a quality of depth and realism which is not what you expect with watercolor paintings. Most of the time I work from a multitude of photos to sketch out how I want the painting to look. I choose my color palette and then lay the first washes down on a cotton rag cold pressed paper. Recently I have experimented with some other materials such as aqua-board and watercolor paper mounted on board.
This painting The Pink Lady is in my collection and it is the painting that started me on this path of watercolor painting in large format. I had just recovered from a serious car accident and had lost my job all within weeks. This is a very special painting and I keep it because it represents how fragile life is and even though things look bleak you can always find light in your life.
The Shaded Trees is on the Panel I had discussed and though I enjoyed the subject matter I found my style and technique did not work as well on this base. I love this painting because I expect to see some magical beings to suddenly appear popping out from behind the trees.
Black Eyed Susans in the Field
You have to smile when you see Black Eyed Susans in the Field and that is this paintings sole purpose. Happy and content and ready for what ever is ahead.
The Shaded Trees is on the Panel I had discussed and though I enjoyed the subject matter I found my style and technique did not work as well on this base. I love this painting because I expect to see some magical beings to suddenly appear popping out from behind the trees.
The Shaded Woods
What a nice way to end this post. Have a happy day.
More Fairy Houses…
I have just added two more fairy houses to my etsy shop and my web site. They are a cabin and an artist studio. I love putting these houses together and as I work I develop these little stories that inspire me to create a three dimensional story ready for your own imagination.
The Fairy Cabin at the Lake
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| Cabin |
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| Back of cabin |
and the Fairy Art Studio..
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| Artist Studio |
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| Skylight |
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| Door open |
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| easel |
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| Inside studio
To purchase any of my fairy houses visit my Etsy shop CLICK HERE.
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