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Storm Clearing
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/24/2009 3:46:32 PM
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 6" x 8" - oil on canvas
The title says it all. I was on the edge of a very steep hillside. The wind was still blowing some snow, but the clouds were starting to part, and a little bit of sunlight was trying to peek through. The weather can change pretty fast here.
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Logan Run Road
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/23/2009 3:41:20 PM
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 6"x8" - oil on canvas
On these cool, crisp days, it is truly glorious when the sun comes out! This is another from Valley Head. I tried to keep it loose, with the brushstrokes showing. Some small branches were scratched in.
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February Light
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/22/2009 3:37:45 PM
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 8" x 10" - oil on canvasI loved the way the golden light was coming through the snow-covered trees. The back-lit trees were in shadow, and appeared blue, while the side-lit trees were reflecting the gold light.
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Valley Head
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/21/2009 3:33:52 PM
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back from Valley Head. It was beautiful! We stayed in a wonderful B & B owned by Grey Darden and Don Morfitt, and painted every day. There was snow, like the scene below. Believe it or not, this is a color photograI'm back from Valley Head. It was beautiful! We stayed in a wonderful B & B owned by Grey Darden and Don Morfitt, and painted every day. There was snow, like the scene below. Believe it or not, this is a color photograph.
So, at least one of my paintings looks almost like a black and white--
 "Winter Road" 6" x 8" - oil on canvas I love the drama of a dark sky with lighter land.
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Standing Together
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/17/2009 3:17:07 PM
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 6" x 6" - oil on canvasWe don't usually think of plants as particularly fast moving creatures, but this one sure was! Maybe because I gave it a big drink of water before putting it in the light, but I had to chase it a bit as it rearranged its leaves. The petals started popping up as I was finishing, but I didn't put that in.
I'm not sure if I will be able to post to this blog for the next two days. I am going on a painting trip to Valley Head, WV, near Snowshoe Resort. But I will resume the blog on my return, along with some "show and tell" from the trip!
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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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Pink Grapefruit
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/13/2009 2:55:48 PM
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 6"x 6" - oil on canvasRecently, we had high winds, and the power was out all night. Next morning, as I was taking a shower in a cold bathroom, by flashlight, I was thinking, "What will I paint today?" which became, "How will I paint today?" No lights or heat, this will be like outdoor painting indoors. Then I thought... the artists in the old days didn't have electric lights, and they did some wonderful art! So, I decided to do a still-life by the natural light coming in the windows. (Most still-lives nowadays are lit by carefully controlled artificial light, that's part of the creativity in a still-life.) Luckily, the power came back on that morning, so I had heat. Here is the painting, with wild uncontrolled natural light, reflecting all over the place!
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Misty Sunrise
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/12/2009 2:51:57 PM
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 6" x 8" - oil on canvasHere is the sun rising over Cheat Lake. The color of the fog was changing as the sun rose and the light changed colors. Ordinarily, I don't include flotsam in a painting, because people associate it with pollution (and sometimes that's what it is!) But here it was just some floating sticks and branches, and the light shining on it was adding a wonderful sparkle to the scene.
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Sometimes my sense of humor gets the best of me...
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/8/2009 2:40:49 PM
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 Cupid's Wisdom - oil on canvas - 6x6"I hope the writing on the purple heart is large enough to read on your monitor. I did it with a 3-haired brush.
This is sort of an "in joke" with some crazy artists I was painting with last week, in Texas, at Andreeva Academy. One morning, one of the guys wore an Abercrombie and Fitch t-shirt with the words DUMP HER on the front.
 Then, one of the women, deciding it can work both ways, wrote DUMP HIM on the front of her shirt. This kind of started a mock feud between them. 
So, the painting was my way of weighing-in on the subject. But wouldn't it be funny if the candy hearts were as off-the-wall as T-shirts? At least paintings of them can be!
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10% Chance of Snow Flurries
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/6/2009 2:33:58 PM
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This was an almost completely light and dark gray scene. (No white, too overcast). To keep it from being too cold, I toned the ground a light orange. With blues and purples applied on top of the orange, it takes on an almost luminescent quality. Really neat!
 8x10" - oil on canvas John Twachtman, one of my favorite artists, would have loved this weather.
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Pink Rose redo
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/5/2009 2:28:04 PM
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 6"x 6" - oil on canvas
Well, not being happy with the first try, I did the rose over again. It seemed like when I added white to the color, it made it grayer. So, to be scientific about this, I only changed one variable: the white. I used flake (lead) white for the second one. I have known for years that flake white is warmer and more transparent than titanium or zinc white, but hadn't been using it because of the toxicity of lead. And usually I paint landscapes.
Just to compare, I mixed each of the two whites with permanent rose, and here were the results:
 I don't know if you can tell on your monitor, but the top row is Utrecht White, and it is much duller and cooler in the middle values than the second row, which is Winton Flake White. Funny how you can know things and not remember that you know them, until there is a problem. Then you go, "Ah, yes, maybe if I had done this..."
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Pink Rose
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/4/2009 2:24:23 PM
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 6"x6" - oil on canvas
With Valentine's Day approaching, the stores are full of roses. They are hard to paint, but of course, I regard that as a challenge. I'm not entirely happy with it, but am posting it anyway. Hey, it is my first attempt at painting a rose.
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Morning
by Linda Schweitzer on 2/3/2009 2:16:30 PM
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 6"x6" - oil on canvasThis is the first of my daily paintings. I just returned from a Carol Marine workshop which inspired me to create and post small works. If you are an artist, and considering doing daily paintings, I highly recommend Carol's workshops! Of course, some days, if I am working on a large painting, I'll post that too.
This painting was done from a photograph I took in Grafton, WV, on a wonderful autumn morning when a brillant sun was burning off the mist.
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