High Meadow

“High Meadow”        Pastel      9” x 12”       $100    © Sharon Lewis
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            We were traveling down the road when I caught sight of this beautiful sliver of light illuminating a meadow. I quickly shot a photo or two and ended up with a couple of slightly skewed and out of focus shots of this beautiful area. I didn’t realize until I began playing around with these photos, to see if I could see a good composition for a painting that I discovered a bonus: there were two horses and maybe a cow in the meadow. This looks like a wonderful, quiet refuge.

            Happy Weekend!

Lissome Lilac

“Lissome Lilac”          Pastel      12” x 9”       $100       © Sharon Lewis
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                  For the last few summers, once the beautiful spring weather has vanished and the heat and humidity of Georgia have arrived, we flee up north to the coast of southern Maine for a brief stay. Here, we enjoy my idea of perfect summer days: cool nights and mornings and long days filled with light. One of the first things I do is to visit the beautiful lilac bush in the back yard and cut a few branches to bring into the house. The whole time we’re there, they fill the kitchen with this sweet fragrance. One day, the light was shining perfectly on this vase and it looked to me like the lilac had struck a graceful pose. It was so much fun to paint this symbol of summer in the middle of winter.

                  Happy Weekend!

The Lonely Sea

“The Lonely Sea”          Pastel         12” x 9”       $100    © Sharon Lewis
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            I borrowed today’s painting title from a great poem by John Masefield, called  Sea Fever It just seemed to match the mood of this painting. It starts with such a lyrical phrase: “I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky”.

Imagine the feel of the wind and the salty spray, and the sounds of the gulls crying and the waves crashing on the rocks.  As you look out over the water, you see all the colors of the fading sun.

Masefield’s  poem ends with a wish for: “…And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick’s over.”

            Wishing you a quiet sleep and sweet dreams.

A Gift of Beauty and Matisse

“A Gift of Beauty and Matisse”     Pastel    12” x 9”       $100    © Sharon Lewis
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It’s the end of a busy week, and almost the end of January, a month no one seems to be sorry to see end. The sun is shining and it just seems perfect to focus on this colorful painting of flowers that I did recently. My wonderful kids sent me these beautiful flowers for my birthday in November. The print on the wall is one I just love, by the Fauvist artist, Henri Matisse, called “The Goldfish”. It violates so many of the rules that we artists have been trained to follow that it just makes me smile. And because it’s is so playful and colorful, it reminds me that creating art can be tremendously fun!

                  Happy Weekend!

Mesmerized

“Mesmerized”               Pastel                9” x 12”                $100            © Sharon Lewis
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            We had been driving for hours that day, stopping occasionally to hike and I was taking photos everywhere for later paintings. We pulled into this motel on the coast just as the sun was going down and it was absolutely amazing! There was an almost violent surf hitting and swirling around the rocks and just gorgeous colors in the sky. It created such a fascinating contrast that I was mesmerized! I stood there taking photos as quickly as I could to capture the fading, glorious light, scrambling all over the rocks, nearly falling in at times, until at last, the light was gone and all that was left was the rhythmic sound of the waves crashing against the rocks.

            Hope your sunsets are mesmerizing this weekend!

Close of a Winter’s Day

“Close of a Winter’s Day”  Pastel      9” x 12”       $100    © Sharon Lewis
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            It started out to be one of those winter days that everybody hates: cold and rainy but ended as this painting indicates: with a gorgeous blue sky and magnificent colors in the clouds.

            Hope you have a happy, colorful weekend!

Thankful for the Color Red

“Thankful for the Color Red”         Pastel         2.5” x 3.5”        $20           © Sharon Lewis
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            It’s a grey, dreary day here and I find myself so grateful for the color red. I just did a quick review of some of the positive things associated with the color red: love, life, happiness, prosperity, long life, luck, money, Christmas, Santa Claus…No wonder I love this color!

           It’s great to be an artist on days like this when I can create a colorful image when all of the ones outside my window are so cheerless.

            Wishing you a cheerful weekend!