We’ve had so many floating rain clouds and fast moving storms this month, and I love it! The skies have been incredible and to see the warm summer rain hit the water and pavement is so soothing. This particular rain cloud missed us, but I sure had fun admiring it from the shore.
It’s so fun to see how my brother and I can look at the same thing and see it in such a different light. This week my we decided to paint a Kettle Cove view for our sibling set. It doesn’t matter how many times we head down Kettle Cove Road, getting that view of the ocean and Richmond Island always takes our breath away. It’s just that pretty. We both worked from the same reference photo, but I managed to not see a little detail my brother picked up on. Can you spot it? I’m just going to blame it on my shifting vision. 🙂 Wishing you a lovely weekend!
A sweet friend gave us a beautiful bouquet of black-eyed susans from the farmers’ market last week and I just couldn’t resist painting these little beauties. They are just soooo happy! They are painted on small 4×4 inch wood panels with 1 inch deep edges. I loved painting on this surface because it felt so smooth and hard against the brush. I think there will be more of wood panels in the future. I was able to focus on gestures and strokes and I love the light and cheerful feeling these evoke. Purchase all 3 and get free shipping. 🙂
My brother Michael is an amazing oil painter and my inspiration for diving into oil painting over 25 years ago. 🙂 We live near one another and enjoy talking about art and painting, but we haven’t collaborated in ages. After much chit chat, we decided it would be fun to play together and paint from the same reference photo or on location together on a regular basis and call it Sibling Sunday (paintings posted Saturday & released on social media on Sunday). Here’s the first one of many, we hope!
Michael’s kids chose a Lake Champlain picture from one of our many collective photos and we made it happen. This here is a summer sunset with a crescent moon as seen from the water. We have always loved going out in the canoe or paddleboard at sunset to get a sweeping view of the sky when visiting the summer camp in North Hero.
You can see that we have both captured some of the same elements of the sunset, but in very different ways. So fun. You can purchase these paintings individually (here for Michael / here for Elizabeth), or as a Fraser Sibling set (set includes free shipping).
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I did a little daily painting of the fishing shacks not that long ago and I kept thinking that it’d be fun to do a few gouache paintings of them, so here you go. I’m having fun playing in gouache–it’s a different kind of meditative creative process for me. The paintings are done on cold press watercolor paper approx 6×6 or 5×6 inches and the paintings are approx 4×4 or 4×3 inches. Wishing you a good week!
I’m not much of a gardener, but I sure do appreciate the efforts and magic of others … and mother nature. I stumbled upon this garden in Hallowell, Maine, once upon a time, and it was such a feast for the eyes that I knew at some point I would paint it. So many colors, so many flowers–so much beauty. This painting evokes pure joy and sunshine to me and I hope it does to you as well. This was a fun one to paint! Enjoy this eternal summer garden.
I’ve been meaning to do something with this poppies linoleum block I carved last month and I thought this week’s tiny tuesday was the perfect opportunity to make it happen. I just let myself play with color, paper, printing and painting too, and it was really fun! I tried all kinds of things … there are some single color block prints, a few 2 color block prints printed from 2 blocks and then some hand colored variations too. I love how each one is different and I love the imperfections in them all. They tell the story of the process and that each one was made my hand … from the carving to the rolling of the ink and the placing of the paper and the burnishing of the paper on the inked block. I made a video that shows a little bit of the process as well as the inspiration from the neighborhood poppies–check it out.
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Here’s a little oil painting inspired by an evening walk on the Ship Harbor Trail on Mount Desert Island at Acadia. The light was perfect and the low tide landscape exquisite. Such a peaceful and gorgeous walk through the trees and along the pink granite shore. More moments like this, please! 🙂
I went up to Acadia National Park for a few days last week with a friend and just soaked up the beauty and the trails all over Mount Desert Island. I squeezed in a lot of outdoor time in a short amount of time … from a sunset hike to an early morning paddle, a day of bike riding the carriage trails and a rainy day walk around Great Head. Magic! It does wonders for the soul to spend time in the woods and on the water.
I’ve been curious about trying gouache, so I used this getaway as my inspiration for diving into a new medium. Gouache is beautiful, rich, opaque and really quick drying. The quick drying part was the hardest thing for me to get used to, but after 7 little paintings and a few sketches in the sketchbook, I felt like I was getting the hang of it and had lots of fun doing them. These little paintings are done on some very thick cold press watercolor paper with deckled edges. Paper is approximately 6×6 or 6×5 inches and the paintings themselves are about 4×4 or 4×3 inches. Here’s a video reveal of the tiny tuesday acadia series.
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I had such a good time in the peony garden at Gilsland Farm a couple of weeks ago that I just couldn’t resist some tiny peony paintings. Why not keep peonies blooming all year long. They are pure magic and smell sooooooo good. Ooooo, and so luscious in paint!
These little paintings were done on 4×4 inch birch panel–a new surface for me. I put a couple of layers of gesso on them, sanded them down and got busy with paint. Here’s a little tiktok reveal video of the peony love paintings. :-).