Late Light Spring

Spring is really starting to take hold. The weather has been warm and the views spectacular. This afternoon light really hits the new buds of this tree just so.. I wait for this every year.. Have to go back for the big painting. Soon.

~ Jennifer

Winter Brook

Had to travel North to find the view for this painting. Following the snow line can be an adventure. I don't know where I will find the view that grabs my interest as I don't know well the areas I am driving. Just looking for the most snow with the good light. This day in New Hampshire was above zero at least.....
~ Jennifer

Devil's Hopyard

Almost the end of the winter paintings. Would have loved to have had more snow days.
~Jennifer

Early Cool

Sunrise yields some lovely views. The quiet time.

Winter Marsh 20x30 Oil on Linen alla prima
Painted recently on site in very cold weather. I set up and got into my painting in spite of the cold. I was so engrossed in painting that I hadn't noticed that a group of birders had gathered to watch; not me but a Snowy Owl, out on the marsh about a half mile away. I got to see it as one of the birders offered me his scope. I really never imagined I would get to see one! Very large and solitary. And very white. Day time owl.. Awesome. He isn't in my painting because I couldn't see him without the scope.

Fakes and Forgeries

I have participated for the last 2 years in the Annual Fakes and Forgeries Show held in Newport, at the Spring Bull Gallery in February. The two paintings shown here are both copies of Frederick J. Mulhaupt Paintings. The catalog of The Retrospective Show is still available from the North Shore Arts Association. I highly recommend acquiring the book.
These were both very involved paintings and I learned so much about the artist himself, as one often does when working a copy, as well as much about what makes a snow painting sparkle. The first one here is titled; By Brook and Ledge; and while my painting is 30x30, the original is 36x36 and hangs in the Plymouth Meeting Library. It was the first one I attempted, it being my favorite. I had to work it twice, as I did not have the correct color for the under painting at the outset. Unfortunately I was half way through the painting before I realized why my colors were so hard to match! The second painting shown here is titled Choate Bridge, Winter and was just as difficult as the first. It is 26x30 and the original is 25x30. Both are oil on linen. It takes almost a year to complete one painting, given all of my other commitments.

Frederick J. Mulhaupt - Dean of the Cape Ann School: A Retrospective

Created for the NSAA 1999 exhibition, this beautiful, full color catalog is the most definitive work to date on the works of this Cape Ann Master. Over a hundred color photos of paintings fill its 58 pages, plus a thoroughly researched essay on Mulhaupt by Kathleen M. Kienholz. A major reference for Mulhaupt collectors.

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