Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Artistic License at Otter Creek

Friday, January 18, 2013

Artistic License at Otter Creek

Parkway Series #399 12 x 16 oil $150.

It is snowing! With the Parkway closed, I decided to paint snow scenes from photos taken last summer. This is an image of Otter Creek with snow and ice superimposed over the greens of summer! Actually I really enjoy the creativity of making up the season and only using the photo for the basic idea and composition. After painting 400 parkway scenes, I am now adding artistic license to my repertoire!

Parkway Series #400 12 x 16 oil $150.

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Treatise on why I create

An artist, musician, craftsman, theatrical director, performer, all know that the human heart longs for truth, goodness, and beauty. If we can create that sense of longing, we capture our audience in the creative experience. In Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz, Frank creates a magical story about longing for home. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" is a plea by a young girl to find that place of rest, a home in which to feel safe. St. Augustine said "our hearts are restless until we find our rest in God". Ennio Morricone, the Italian composer, expressed his faith through his music. He sat before a painting of Jesus every day and prayed for an hour before beginning his day. His composition "The Mission" transports the listener to another place, another time, another dimension of reality - an eternal home- a celebration of beauty. My goal in painting is to draw the viewer into a higher sense of reality and to feel that sense of longing and to hopefully realize that longing is ultimately for the eternal home, Heaven.