The Three Graces
The Three Graces I've painted the fountain in Josephine Gardens (our last post) a few times before. The Three Graces is a watercolor sketch from 2006.
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Josephine Spring
Josephine Spring Josephine Garden and Fountain are a major attraction in Wilmington's Brandywine Park, especially when the cherry trees are in bloom. They were donated in 1933 by Col. J. Ernest Smith as a memorial to his late wife, Josephine Tatnall Smith Here is my Josephine Spring, acrylic/mixed media on canvas. .Happy vernal equinox and welcome to spring!
On the Avenue
On the Avenue On the Avenue is a 2006 glimpse of Wilmington's Delaware Avenue just west of the CSX (ex-B&O) railroad bridge. Old familiar businesses are here such as the Del Rose Restaurant and Kelly's Logan House. The street is populated by an assortment of characters. After I painted this scene I composed a sequel, The Morning After. For On the Avenue I first did a line drawing without the figures which I scanned and saved digitally. I then painted it in watercolor, then scanned and saved again. I painted the figures individually and in small groups, scanned them, and positioned them in my digital copy of the watercolor of the buildings in Photoshop. For The Morning After I converted my scan of the initial line drawing to a purple-on-purple scene, then drew/painted the bag lady, trash cans, etc. which I scanned and positioned in Photoshop as before. While I have never done true digital art, I have frequently used Photoshop to size, co...
Cork Coasters
Cork Coasters One more re-use of the star pattern that bordered our dining room in the late 1800s, stenciled onto cork coasters. An earlier cork coaster project, these coaster sets were stenciled with a deer head decorated for Christmas, presents for my brothers. They remember the mounted deer head in the living room that our mother decorated for the holidays, a tradition continued by my brother Anson and his wife who now own the deer head. More recently I hand painted this set of floral-themed coasters as a present for our granddaughter-in-law who shares a birthday with me.
The Dining Room Stencil
The Dining Room Stencil Here's the dining room window in the process of being converted to a display niche in 1966. When the old wallpaper was stripped we found the remains of an old stencilled border from the days this room was a kitchen, late 1800s. Here's a detail of the stencil. I have since used that pattern in other projects. When we replaced the hood over our kitchen cook-top the new hood left a four inch gap over the Corian backsplash. I filled this gap with a metal-faced panel I made, stenciled with a scaled down version of the old border. A nod to the history of our house.