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Trout Pond

 by Linda Schweitzer on 10/23/2009 2:03:47 PM
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...Trout Pond...
watercolor on 140# paper - 10" x 7"

This is a plein air watercolor of our beautiful WV autumn. Well, at least I tried. I have not done any watercolor painting for a long, long time, and boy, am I rusty! But there is something about the feeling of it, the downright joy of the colors, that caused me to go ahead and show it online.

Watercolors force me think in reverse from the way I have to think when painting in oils. I have to paint negative space and work light to dark, which is really an incredibly good exercise in visual thinking.

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Early Color - Sold

 by Linda Schweitzer on 9/23/2009 4:21:55 PM
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...Early Color...
6" x 8" - oil on canvas

This is another plein air painting, started in the field and finished later in the studio. The leaves seem to be turning early this year, probably because it has been so dry. It is easy to get too detailed in a painting like this, especially since there is so much beautiful detail in the scene. I tried to lessen the detail by making the tree trunk on the left the same value as the foliage behind it. Not sure if it helped--It's hard to judge your own paintings when they're fresh.

While I was painting, one of my friends took my picture. Yes, I am using an umbrella in the shade! It really helped, too. There was dappled light coming through the tree above.

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Horses Grazing

 by Linda Schweitzer on 3/25/2009 4:37:19 PM
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...Horses Grazing...
oil on canvas - 6" x 8"

I was reading that an artist should tell her viewers where the scene in a painting is located, but darn, I don't know where I was here... (Somewhere in Tucker Co., WV) And what's more, I didn't mind not knowing, because I do know that if I go a little further, there will be something I can identify on a map. And the people are friendly.
I sort of got carried away on this one, and put in more detail than usual, but all that detail was just so nice!

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Quiet Water

 by Linda Schweitzer on 3/22/2009 4:28:34 PM
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...Quiet Water...
 Oil on stretched linen - 5" x 7"

Another autumn scene while I wait for spring to arrive...

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Brilliant Autumn

 by Linda Schweitzer on 3/19/2009 4:25:59 PM
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...Brilliant Autumn...
Oil on canvas - 6" x 8"

Here is the Cheat River again. I paint it a lot. Autumn is the most colorful time of year, and I like to make the most of it by getting a lot of photos. I also kayaked here. The water was so shallow, I could see every grain of sand on the bottom. There are dangerous rapids just downstream. (I don't do rapids.)
I like this one. The evening light had a lot of orange in it. I toned the canvas orange, and was still adding it to almost every color.

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Autumn Along the River

 by Linda Schweitzer on 3/13/2009 4:20:26 PM
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...Autumn Along the River...
6" x 8" - oil on canvas
Here is another scene from just driving along the back roads of West Virginia. I just had to stop and take pictures. Can you believe this is the view from someones front yard? I'd like to do this one as a larger painting.

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Golden Tree

 by Linda Schweitzer on 2/14/2009 3:01:03 PM
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8"x 6" - oil on canvas

Here is the Cheat River in autumn. The one golden tree was just glowing. I did this painting from a picture I took from a bridge. While I was photographing, a man stopped his truck on the bridge, jumped out with a camera, and started taking pictures too. He said he had lived there all his life and had never noticed how pretty it was till he saw me taking pictures of it. Isn't that how it is so often? We take for granted what is in our own backyards.

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