Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: May 2013

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Color and Light

Parkway Series #407 16 x 16 oil SOLD

Several people have asked for another bridge painting. This one is at milepost 118 and is in a square format. I enjoyed working with purple, yellow and green on a red background. Color and light....that's what it's all about.

Late Afternoon on the Parkway

Parkway Series #406 12 x 16 oil Sold

This is the finished demo for a day spent with the Bald Knob artists in Rocky Mount. Thank you to all for your encouragement. It was great fun and I'm glad the painting turned out as well as it did. I never know when I am painting and talking at the same time what will happen!

Smith Mountain Lake Park

Parkway Series #404 12 x 16 oil sold

My plein air group scheduled a day to paint at Smith Mountain Lake Park. Beautiful weather... fun day!

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.