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“Where I Want To Be In August” 5 x 7 Pastel $105 © Sharon Lewis
I started this painting on location on the coast of Maine and then forgot it was in my studio until now. I wasn’t happy with it because I found it to be a bit boring. So, I worked on the sky to make the clouds more interesting and added some of the sailboats that were out that day.
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“Good Friends” 5 x 7 Oil $105 © Sharon Lewis
There’s nothing like meeting with a good friend to laugh, gossip, and catch up on all that’s important.
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“Last Impression” 7 x 5 Pastel $105 © Sharon Lewis
Last summer I was fortunate to stay at a lovely rental house on the coast of Maine. The house had beautiful views of the ocean from the deck and Reid State Park nearby. Reid State Park was essentially two beaches enabling long walks with gorgeous sea, sand, and skies everywhere you looked. I really didn’t want to leave this place.
This was the very last painting I did. I needed to pack up all my art supplies which was going to take a while so I didn’t have much time. The view down these rocks was partially obscured by shrubbery but with the magic of art, I whisked that away and painted the glimpses I could see. It was a little more impressionistic than my usual paintings but it was one of my favorite ones of the trip.
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| “Delightful Diversity” 8 x 10 Oil $200 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Buy |
When I decided to paint this scene, I didn’t really stop to consider the difficulty of painting so many different shades of green. However, once I began painting, I just got into painting all the beautiful textures and forms of the trees and plants in this park. Although each plant is green it differs subtly from some of the plants around them. This reminds me of how delightfully different we all are and yet, in the end, we are all humans, worthy of kindness, respect, and compassion. I admire the people of Minneapolis who are going out of their way to help their neighbors. They are demonstrating through their sacrifices, what it means to love your neighbor as yourself.
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“The Red Roof” 5 x 7 Oil $ 105 © Sharon Lewis
As a landscape artist who is often working with many, many shades of green and blue, I love when I run across red as an accent color. When I’m lucky enough to find it in a coastal scene, which I also love to paint, I feel I’ve hit the jackpot. So, of course I took many photos of this house on the rocks, admiring the red roof and imagining the killer views they must have from their front porch.
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“Summer Parade” 5 x 7 Pastel $ 105 © Sharon Lewis
This is a painting I completed while onsite in Maine. It was August but it was sunny, windy, and cool – for me, an ideal summer day. I had a constant parade of clouds drifting by and so I had to quickly paint what was in front of me. For a relatively slow painter like me this was challenging but also exhilarating. I feel so lucky that I had the opportunity to be outside on a gorgeous, sunlit day getting to do something I love.
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“Sailing Saturday” 5 x 7 Pastel $ 105 © Sharon Lewis
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This is another painting I did while in Maine recently. I was in my version of heaven, painting on the coast, in sunny, cool weather, with gorgeous clouds overhead and sailboats gliding by.
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“Racing the Rain” 5 x 7 Pastel $ 105 © Sharon Lewis
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While in Maine recently, I was lucky to be treated to the sight of many clouds racing across the sky, with lots of sailboats trying to beat the rain clouds. I love painting skies outside, especially in cool, sunny weather but it was a challenge to capture these fast-moving clouds before they exited stage right.
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“In the Still of the Morning” 8” x 10” (Framed 11 x 13) Pastel $330 © Sharon Lewis
I’m so happy to share with you that one of my paintings, was selected by Master artist, Karen Margulis for the “All About Pastels” exhibition at the Alpharetta Arts Center. The exhibition runs until April 30 and has some amazing paintings! If you’re in Georgia, the Alpharetta Arts Center is at 238 Canton Street Alpharetta GA 30009.
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“In the In-Between” 11” x 14” Pastel $300 © Sharon Lewis
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I’ve mentioned before how much I love looking at and painting skies and as often as I paint them, you’d think I’d find them easy. Sometimes they are but more often I struggle to paint them in a way that fully conveys how gorgeous I find them. One of the times when they are especially gorgeous is that time in-between sunset and full night when the sky is often filled with this last, quick, intense display of beautiful light and color. Hope you enjoy!
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“Greening Up” 7” x 5” Pastel $140 © Sharon Lewis
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It’s officially summer now although we’ve had plenty of heat and humidity for a while in the Atlanta region. I’m already longing for the cool breezes coming off northern waters but also rejoicing in the long days of light that summer brings. Summer usually gives me the luxury of time – time to get the many household chores done that I’ve been ignoring, time to meet and catch up with friends and family, and time to be creative. I can finally take creative risks and if I fail, I have time to try again. Hope you’re enjoying the start of your summer. Happy Weekend! |
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“In the Still of the Morning” 8” x 10” Pastel $240 © Sharon Lewis
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Sunrises remind me that the long, dark nights of winter are always followed by the light and warmth of the morning and all the promise of a new day.
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“The Early Birds Get the Sunrise” 12” x 9” Pastel $100 © Sharon Lewis
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I love to sleep in in the morning and I love the colors of a beautiful sunrise. These two things are incompatible but I make it work. I’m fine with getting up around 4:30am to capture photos of a sunrise in a beautiful location and then go back to sleep with the sounds of happy birds rejoicing in another spectacular start to a summer morning.
Happy Weekend and may all your mornings be spectacular!
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“Beautiful Morning” 9” x 9” Pastel $100 © Sharon Lewis
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This time of year, Maine is a wonderful place to be. The month of June is usually mild with cool mornings, and there are sunrises worth getting up absurdly early for, since they often involve a gorgeous explosion of color like this.
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“One Big Leap” 8” x 10” Pastel $75 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Purchase |
Remember when you'd lie on your back looking up at the sky, and name all the things you saw in the clouds? I still see things, or people, or animals in clouds. After all, they serve as giant Rorschach tests in the sky. What do you see in these clouds stretched across the evening sky? I see figures leaping up, perhaps chasing the sun.
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“A Brisk Wind” 5” x 7” Pastel $50 © Sharon Lewis |
I painted this scene on a very windy day in Maine. I had to weight my easel down with multiple large rocks to keep it from capsizing, but I loved every minute of it. The sun was shining and the wind was cool; I could hear the mother ducks below me moving their tiny chicks into the cove where they were warmed and sheltered from the wind. There were gulls flying above checking me out to see if I had something more edible than my sticks of pastel. It's all of this that I love when I paint outdoors.
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“Hidden Away” 5” x 7” Pastel $50 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Purchase |
When I used to visit Maine more regularly, we’d often pass this cove so well-hidden by trees that if you weren’t paying attention, you’d drive past and never even realize it was there. For some reason, places like that fascinate me. They are places that reveal themselves to those looking for them; the ones who pay attention and look for the unexpected. Driving on the only road leading in or out to a distant island, with trees on both sides and knowing there was water just beyond and out of sight, we’d suddenly catch a quick glimpse of one of these small coves, often with boats moored safely away from the worst of Maine’s storms. We all need these safe coves at times; a place to be sheltered and hidden away from the worst of what life throws at us.
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“Cove, Early Morning” 5” x 7” Pastel $50 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Purchase |
Sometimes I’m drawn to the play of light and shadow in nature. Light can create such interesting contrasts and the same colors can be almost magically transformed and brightened by light or dulled into some hard-to-recognize color in the shadows.
And sometimes, I just love looking at a scene like this, with the water flowing off into distant, unknown realms and I imagine and wonder where it might lead me.
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“Sky Bloom” 6.5” x 9.25” Pastel $70 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Purchase |
I love the quiet, the hush of early morning; the promise of the whole day before me, the sounds of birds’ sleepy calls as each awakens with the light. And if I’m lucky, I see the early morning sky bloom with glorious color.
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“Beautiful Oasis” 9” x 12” Pastel $100 © Sharon Lewis Click Here to Purchase |
I’d love to be here in this beautiful oasis, where I’d be watching the light slowly fade from a gorgeous sky, listening to the birds calling good night, and reveling in the thought that I could do all of this again tomorrow.
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