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A local female resident of Bridgewater has more than once depicted the beauty of Shenandoah Valley landscape on canvas. Having been painting for 36 years of her life, capturing landscape beauty isn't the only reason why she carries around easel and oils to mountains and cornfields. She uses her collection of cut-outs from daily newspapers over the years in order to paint.
This artist explains that being able to use black and white, as depicted in the clippings she collected, allows her to paint in an old fashioned way. She further says that by clipping the pictures of animals and objects she could later use them to complete a bigger scenic picture. The 15 by 4 mural on her family room is also a product of this method, and she proves it by holding up one worn newspaper evidence with two millstones in it. The millhouse on a rustic scene on the riverbank and the grey mill wheels look really amazing.
According to her, the large mural on her wall is a product of her methods, which include using the said photographs to add detail to other works like weather board buildings and wood land animals. To make it, she only needs water. Water is not very difficult to use because it dries fast.
She displayed another newspaper photograph of a snow scene and said she plans to begin a painting from it very soon. Snow is quite fast to do and easy to paint. One or two smaller scenes and the mural are the only paintings she has at home. According to her, the paintings are all given away or sold right after she finished painting them.
She usually sells her paintings to a furniture store in Maryland. She also paints at the request of friends and neighbors. She has got a lot of orders to keep her busy at all times. She receives tons of orders during the Christmas months because people usually give her paintings as gifts.
She was only thirteen years old when first got into painting, thanks to a nice old lady in her neighborhood in Rockingham County. Every afternoon she paid 25 cents to the old lady for a lesson. Her mother made her very first pallet from a lightweight board, using a drill and a paring knife and she still has it now. Decoupage on it was a note about how it was made and it was stained with paint all over.
About six years ago, their church has been put down, but she decided to use a family room in their home for remaining items. You get a clear view of the river thanks to the huge glass wall on one entire face of the room, and as the sun filters through you could just see how amazing it is. The artist said that because they wanted so much to bring the natural outdoors inside the house, they used the glass wall.
As she was painting the mural, she wanted something fit inside the room. Right about the time she was three quarters to finishing the murals, the children pointed out her mistake with the too bright foliage and the reds, rusts and gold and the rustic family room. She may as well continue to keep her home empty of all her other works, for any other painting in the spacious, sunny den would not be noticed besides the eye catching wall painting that explains without words her love of painting.
