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8/23/21

Looking for Watercolor Paintings

This is one of Asheville favorites showcase places to shop with a mix of antiques, art, books, vintage or new unique finds for your home.  More than fifty dealers.
The Screen Door

Painting framed or ready to frame. See more on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cheeklindafineart/ 

Thank you for looking.


 

7/19/21

Asheville's Architecture

2 W/C of the many styles of architecture in Asheville, ranging from victorian to arts and crafts from art deco to modern desigin. The Church of St. Lawrence and the Biltmore estate.



6/8/21

Into the Gorge, Linville Falls





 Linville wilderness area, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, is a must go to. For information see https://www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/linville-falls-trails.htm

Watercolors posted are 14x11 Rough Ridge Lookout
12x6 Linville River,  6x10 Linville River, 8x10 In the Cavern.

5/28/21

From oil to watercolor 2021


 That first experience of painting outdoors, directly from nature, was a revelation, and joy.  For years I have painted with oils en plein air, though I didn't paint in watercolor myself, I certainly had a appreciation of the medium. As a plein air artist traveling light when working outdoors is always a plus, and with the typically equipment watercolorist use as apposed to oils made it possible for me to go painting easier.

Above are some of my small 9x12 paintings created with oil and then with w/c of the same subject.

Asheville art museum

This painting was painted in Madison Country North Carolina in a place call "Big Pine", it is a landscape of tobacco barns and far...