Archives for posts with tag: seascape

There’s No Better Inspiration than Travel

February 1, 2018 //

Whenever I return from a vacation, I feel eager to start a fresh panel. ( I don’t use canvas) We just returned from our fourth trip to Martinique and I was so psyched I finished this little 8 x 10 in a single day. Well, that’s a little bit of a fudge. I don’t count blocking out basic shapes and toning the panel but the truth is that is usually just a half hour task, as important as it is. Painting directly into white makes the job too hard. This will be my 4th painting of Martinique but my first in 2018.

Tags art, beach scene, lois lawrence, martinique, matinique painting, Resin painting, rhode island artist, seascape, stonington artist, tropical scene, tropics

Categories acrylic painting, art, Garden art, Gardening, landscape, nautical art, seascape, Uncategorized

Ship Offshore in Paradise

July 24, 2013 //

My friends in and around Stonington can see some of my pieces at Frills Gallery in Watch Hill. (It’s the white building with a front porch as you first enter town) This is a companion piece to one I made recently. The colors have changed and I’ve used different plants — fringed Bleeding Heart for the ‘tall trees’ and ferns and a Foam Flower leaf for the underbrush. A crazy little Bellflower hugs the beach.

Tags botanical art, botanical collage, connecticut artist, horticulture, lois lawrence, mixed-media, night scenes, plant collage, pressed botanicals, real plant, Rhode Island beaches, seascape, ship paintings, ship prints, stonington connecticut, stonington ct, Watch Hill

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, graphic art, mixed media, nautical art

Two Versions of a Pressed Botanical Seascape

July 16, 2013 //

After making the larger version of this seafaring image, I changed a few details and then re-cropped it for a smaller mat. For the smaller piece I also used smaller-scale foliage and added a touch of pastel on the Yellow Archangel at the bottom of the image while leaving the same foliage in its natural state above. Swapping out the standard Bleeding Heart leaf for a smaller Fringed Bleeding Heart worked well.

Both of these are now listed in my Etsy shop.

Tags botanical artist, connecticut artist, dried leaves, lois lawrence, mixed-media, nautical art, plant collage, pressed botanical, pressed flowers and leaves, seascape, stonington artist

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, mixed media, multi media

A Pair of Seascapes Powered by Rose Leaves

July 9, 2013 //

I owe the idea for these two scenes to a lovely woman I met at the Artisan’s Market in Providence two weeks ago. She asked me if I agreed that ferns could be used to suggest sails in a nautically themed piece.

Once I put the graphic together I experimented with foliage and found that rose leaves worked well so I used them in the night-time vignette.

For daytime I kept the plant life in the foreground.

Tags boat art, botanical art, connecticut artist pressed plants, mixed-media, nautical art, plant collage lois lawrence, pressed flowers, seascape

Categories art, botanical, botanical art, collage, Garden art, Gardening, mixed media, multi media

Dill Adds Flavor to an Undersea Fantasy

February 15, 2013 //

After playing with wave and color effects, I was reminded of the sea so I checked my inventory of dried plants and selected dill as the main plant. To this I added a few curving fern leaflets and a ‘school’ of azalea leaves. My husband was reminded of winter instead because he thought the ‘bubbles’ looked like snow. That’s the beauty of fantasy. Everyone creates his or her own.

Meanwhile, I think I’ll pay more attention to my husband’s herb garden next season.

Tags abstract art, azalea, botanical, collage, dill, ferns, framed, lois lawrence, seascape, wall hanging

Categories art, botanical, collage, multi media, Uncategorized