Blue Ridge, Daily Painter: Janet Wimmer: Smith Mountain Lake State Park

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Smith Mountain Lake State Park

Smith Mountain Lake State Park 12 x 16 oil Sold

The Ridge and Valley Plein Air Painters met at the Lake last summer; I can't believe it took me 6 months to finish this painting! Many times I begin a painting on location and finish it later. What better way to spend a snow day than to remember the hot summer sun from last August!

No comments:

Post a Comment

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.