"The Old Springhouse", 16x12, oil on gessoboard, by Maryanne Jacobsen, palette knife landscape, Pennsylvania springhouse, old buildings, impressionism

"The Old Springhouse", 16x12, oil on gessoboard by Maryanne JAcobsen

This is a painting of an old springhouse that was up the road from my last house in Chester Springs, Pa. The building may be old but it has a tremendous amount of character, and with the dappled light cascading over it, I knew immediately that I wanted to paint it.

In case you are not familiar with what a springhouse is, here's a definition from Wikipedia: A spring house, or springhouse, is a small building used for refrigeration once commonly found in rural areas before the advent of electric refrigeration. It is usually a one-room building constructed over the source of a spring. The water of the spring maintains a constant cool temperature inside the spring house throughout the year. In settings where no natural spring is available, another source of natural running water, such as a small creek or diverted portion of a larger creek, may be used. The main use of a spring house is for the long-term storage of food that would otherwise spoil, such as meat, fruit or dairy products.

This painting is now available for purchase after being in an exhibit . Please send me an email at maryannejacobsen@aol.com if you are interested in this painting.

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"Rue de la Fontaine, Roussillon", 10x8, oil on linen

"Rue de la Fontaine, Roussillon", 10x8, oil on linen

Roussillon, the ochre-colored village in southeastern Provence has dramatically different architecture than other villages in Provence since its buildings are derived from ochre colored rock rather than the limestone we are so used to seeing associated with Provence. Its history is fascinating as well, and you can read about it here if you are interested in the Moors, and Catalans and the Crown of Aragon, since it's after midnight and I am too tired to write about it myself!

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"Ice Plant Season" 14x11, oil on linen board by Maryanne Jacobsen, California landscapes, ice plants, leaning cypress trees , Monterey

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" Ice Plant Season" 14x11, oil on linen board-$750

We drove up the California coast a couple years ago all the way from Santa Monica north to San Francesco, and the beauty of the California coast was truly an amazing thing to behold. The ride was long but we broke it up by stopping at Cambria to visit with my husband's brother and his wife and we stayed at a beautiful Inn right on the Pacific ocean. Cambria was a small Western-style town with a couple art galleries on the main road and even some adorable Victorian buildings!



The next day we were back on the road and traveled the coastal highway all along Big Sur and the Santa Cruz mountain range where the scenery was beyond spectacular. Since I hate heights, I was a little freaked out by the highway, but I managed to catch some great views nonetheless. We had a late lunch in Fisherman's Village in Monterey right before we got to San Francesco. I think I caught this scene somewhere near Monterey or Santa Cruz, but we hit so many spots during that trip that it's kind of a blur.

The scene was clearly spectacular. There were these weird icy pink-purple flowers all over the place and the trees there were so wind-swept it was as though the winds had bent their frail backbones for centuries! I think these were cypress trees and I must confess that between these Cypress trees and the California eucalyptus trees, I could move to California just for the trees alone!

Since then I have returned to California quite a few times, and I have seen these ice plants all along the southern coast as well. The first time that I saw these ice plants I think that my mouth dropped open and I gasped out loud. They were grouped in mounds of gorgeous vivacious pink flowers and you can find them clustered together on hilltops and in valleys and wherever the eye can see. Sometimes you'll catch them mingled with the California blue lupine and that is truly a scene of paradise on earth!

In this painting, I decided to combine two treasures of the Monterey Coast- the ice plants cascading down the beach right along the leaning cypress grove. Such drama is second to none if you are painting landscapes!

I have been painting my favorite places on earth recently- from Maine to Provence to the coast of California. We are truly blessed to live in an age where trips to these wonderful places are just a fingertip away!

"Mission Capistrano Warmth", 14x11, oil on canvas panel

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"Mission Capistrano Warmth", 14x11, oil on canvas panel

I often find myself envying the artists who live in southern California. Although I know envy is not a very pleasant trait to possess, I would move to California in a heartbeat if I were younger. It is one of the loveliest places on earth with its dramatic seacoast, beautiful mountain ranges and unusual trees and flora. It is no wonder the American impressionist movement took a firm hold there!

I've done quite a few paintings of Mission San Juan Capistrano. So although this one is sold, do put Mission Capistrano into the keyword search and see what else is available. There's a couple good ones left!


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"Provencal Skyline-Brantes", 5x7, oil on board by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Provencal Skyline-Brantes", 5x7, oil on board

I must confess that after working for two days on that lackluster painting of a dreary garden in Denmark, I needed a pick-me -upper. So I went back to the place where my heart has always been from a very young age- Provence.

I won't bore you with the details of why my heart is most likely as French as truffles, but in truth I suspect that it is, was and always will be.

I must also give credit to Deborah Lawrenson, British author extraordinaire and art collector for tugging my heartstrings with the recent reading of her book, "The Lantern". Her vibrant imagery of the Provencal landscape re-awakened my desire to paint more paintings of this incredibly medieval, mystical, captivating and majestic place.

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"Cottonwood Trail-Colorado", 9x12, oil on Raymar panel

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"Cottonwood Trail-Colorado", 9x12, oil on Raymar panel

In contrast to yesterday's rather somber Scandinavian palette, this painting reflects my joy for all scenes autumnal. Maybe it's that I was born in October, or maybe it's because I adore color- whatever it is, I just love painting autumn landscapes because it allows me to really push the colors:0)

I painted this two years ago in October after returning from a trip out west after one of my paintings was juried into The American Impressionist Society's show at the Saks Gallery in Denver. We took some extra time on the trip to enjoy the beautiful Western scenery, and one of the high points of the trip was visiting Rio Grande country.

I have always been a little intimidated about painting mountains, because it's not scenery that I grew up with being from the east coast. So in this painting, i decided to just have fun pushing the colors and not worry too much about defining the mountains perfectly. I used some of what I learned from Edgar Payne's book on composition to play around with the scene to create a more pleasing composition, adding complimentary colors on the right and extending the trail to eliminate the boring empty road space in the lower right hand quadrant.


I wanted to push the warmness of the scene and I think the painting ended up having a happy feel to it, with warm lights and cool shadows.


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"Bregentved House and GArden-Denmark"-10x8, oil on linen

"Bregentved House and GArden-Denmark"-10x8, oil on linen

It's been almost ten years since I visited Denmark, where we met my husband's relatives and had a really amazing vacation. We were given the grand tour of Jacobsen family sites and learned a lot of history about my husband's family while we were there. The site of this painting was somewhere around the grounds of the beautiful Begentved Manor, or Castle, as some call it. We were told that today the grounds house a mental institution, (see photo below) but I could not verify this via a google search. (I also don't speak Danish!)

Prior to the site becoming a mental institution, it was the horticultural paradise where my husband's great-grand-relatives developed the Moltke Pear for the Danish royal family. The house that I painted was actually one of the gardener's cottages in days gone by, so I may have actually painted the long ago home of one of my husband's relatives!

How cool is that?

At any rate, when I pulled out the old photos for our trip, I was challenged to try to paint the very cool light temperature in Denmark because it is so remarkably different from what I usually paint here in Florida. I must admit this was hard for me. (That's also why the painting is priced well below my normal rates per square inch!)

I was not a painter when we were in Denmark and I had to rely on poor photographs to remind me of that cool-gray light temperature and lack of contrast in the light, even though it was mid-Summer when we were there. Here is the photo that I took of the cottage:

To read more about the area and the Manor House, you can go here.

I am going to try to do more paintings of Danish landscapes in upcoming days. Hopefully, that will help me nail the light temperature! And if you are planning a trp to Denmark, I highly recommend this lovely bed and breakfast where we stayed. It is called the BEd and Breakfast Eskilstrup and I can tell you that the breakfasts were feasts fit for a king! Danish blue cheese, freshly baked and buttery Danish pastries, fresh fruits, granola and yogurt... I'd best not go on, as I have not eaten dinner yet!


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Autumn's First Blush, 7x5, oil on board-$150

Autumn's First Blush, 7x5, oil on board-$150

Notes of raspberry, lime and orange infuse this small piece with light and color reminiscent of autumn's first blush. Painted with both brush and palette knife, this scene could be Tuscany, Provence, or virtually anywhere in the world where the kiss of early fall makes her first appearance.

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"Misery Loves Company", 24x24, oil on board

"Misery Loves Company", 24x24, oil on board

Last week after I finished the commissioned painting of the sunflowers, I had a lot of paint left over on my palette. Since these were colors I don't normally use, I wanted to get rid of them! I wondered what the painting would look like if I changed the petals, and made the flowers droop instead of standing upright. This was the result. They all look miserable, poor things! Save the little bud in the top left who still has her face to the sun. God bless her naivety, she has no clue that she's doomed!

So I got to thinking about flowers in general. They have feelings , too, I'll bet. One day they are blowing in the field with the wind at their back and the sun on their heads, and the next minute someone comes along, picks them, and that's the end of all that glorious freedom! Suddenly they find themsleves traumatized by being sliced from their mothering root system, and then they find themselves stuck together, probably with some fellow flowers whose company they don't even care for, and with nothing to look forward to but the slow and inevitable decline of their freshness and beauty.

But just like Elton John sang in The Lion King, I guess that is the circle of life, isn't it?

And now you know why you shouldn't paint when you're in a bad mood! My snarkiness last week is written all over this painting! That should also be a lesson to me why I should not paint when I get a migraine.

I'm still learning...

Circle of Life lyrics:

From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun
There's more to see than can ever be seen
More to do than can ever be done
There's far too much to take in here
More to find than can ever be found
But the sun rolling high
Through the sapphire sky
Keeps great and small on the endless round

It's the Circle of Life
And it moves us all
Through despair and hope
Through faith and love
Till we find our place
On the path unwinding
In the Circle
The Circle of Life

"Blue Door-Provence", 5x7, oil on board-by Maryanne Jacobsen, paintings of Provence, blue doors

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What's not to like about Provence?

Old medieval villages perched on mountainsides like teetering wedding cakes bask in the golden sunlight all year long- the limestone turning from orange to soft pink as the sun sinks lower into the horizon at sundown. Bright blue doors and shutters provide just the right impressionist vibration against that orange glow of the old walls, and the various mountain ranges (Alps, Vaucluse and Luberon) fade to soft purples and grayish blues as they recede into the distance of the backdrop.

I recently finished Deborah Lawrenson's beautiful book, "The Lantern", and I have wanted to do another painting of Provence while her vibrant imagery of the region is still fresh in my mind. The setting for this modern Gothic romantic novel is Provence, and I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves all things Provence! Please check out the book here, and take a moment to visit Deborah's lovely blog here.

I hope to do more paintings of Provence in the future, and Deborah was generous in sending me some photos of that glorious golden light falling into bewitching patterns across her lovely property in Provence. The scene above is typical of the little villages that can be found throughout Provence, each having their own distinct personalities. As an impressionist painter, I am very envious of that lovely soft, diffused light quality that pervades the Mediterranean region.

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"David's Sunflowers", 24x24, oil on board

"David's Sunflowers", 24x24, oil on board

This was a commissioned piece and is not for sale. The person requested these "muted" colors and based upon my mood lately, I can appreciate the subtlety. I used a limited palette and omitted the warm reds and greens entirely. It's rather Van Gogh-esque, I suppose.

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"Harvest Time", 12x16, oil on canvas panel by Maryanne Jacobsen

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"Harvest Time", 12x16, oil on canvas panel by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Lord, it is time.
The summer was very big.
Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose.
Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days,
press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetness into the heavenly wine."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

It is harvest time in many of the world's most productive vineyards. I used the reference photo below from a Tuscan vineyard to create my painting, which won an honorable merit award at an exhibit at The Venice Art Center :




From the photo, it appeared to be a "cool temperature" sort of day, overcast, with soft shadows , diffused light and lots of grays. In the underpainting, I used permanent rose for my lights and ultramarine blue for my shadows to keep the light temperature cool. The monitor cannot capture the subtle lavenders and violets sufficiently in this piece and I held on to it for a long time because I enjoyed it and did not want to sell it. I have finally decided to sell it, so if you are looking for a painting with lush impasto and shades of lavender and magenta, here it is!

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"Morning Jaunt- Cabbage Key", 5x7, oil on board by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Morning Jaunt- Cabbage Key", 5x7, oil on board-$100-sale price!

Cabbage Key is a small island in southwest Florida, accessible only by boat. There's a marina there where one can see all types of boats, moored for fishing or hanging out for lunch at The Cabbage Key Inn, where one can put their dollar bill on the wall just to prove they were there. It's a noted fact that Ernest Hemingway hung out at the bar there, and also rumored that Jimmy Buffett wrote "Cheeseburger in Paradise" after visiting Cabbage Key.

The island is lovely in the autumn and winter months where one can hike the nature trails without humidity, or just relax , Old Florida style. If you're looking for fast boats and glitz, Cabbage Key is not for you. But if you want to drop off the grid for a day or two, take the trip. Be sure to visit pristine Cayo Costa while you're there. It's just an island away. You can have a picnic lunch on the beach with egrets and watch dolphins frolicking.

Yup, enjoy life in the slow lane, just like this old boat.

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"French Creek at Birchrunville, Pa", 16x12, oil on canvas- by Maryanne Jacobsen

"French Creek at Birchrunville, Pa", 16x12, oil on canvas-$750

This is a smaller version of a painting I did a few years ago which I titled "God's Palette". It depicts a tributary of the French Creek in Chester County, Pa. right off Hollow Rd. at the Sheeder Hall Bridge in Birchrunville. A favorite fishing and picnic spot of my husband and I in the days when we lived in Chester Springs, (see photo below) I invariably grow home sick for the place as Indian Summer sets in and the smells of fall beckon one to think of the fall colors of deciduous trees in all of their bewitchment. Birchrunville was an easy bike ride from my old home and is home to a fabulous post office/ gourmet restaurant, gorgeous gentlemen's farms, and of course the French Creek's babbling waters. It has an annual fourth of July parade that is second to none for its quaintness and quirkyness.

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"Summer Petunias, Strasbourg", 16x20

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"Summer Petunias, Strasbourg", 16x20

This was my most recent painting of the canal scene in Le Petite France, which I've painted before. I did this one back in June right after I took a class in one and two point perspective. The class at Ringling was really helpful, in terms of creating a scene like this one. Perspective can be challenging and my goal in this painting was to concentrate on getting it right!

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"View of Ram Island Lighthouse from Ocean Point", 10x8, oil on linen by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Ram Island Lighthouse from Ocean Point", 10x8, oil on linen by Maryanne Jacobsen

A funny thing happened while I was in Maine. I met a fellow artist Roger Milinowski while visiting his gallery, Head of the Harbor, in Boothbay Harbor. We got to talking and he asked me where I was from. I told him I lived in southwest Florida and he said, "You know, I have a friend that I visit in Venice Florida and to be perfectly honest with you, I didn't see much to inspire me there."

I burst out laughing because Roger had no idea that I lived in Venice, Florida! I told him to tell that to my hubby , a non-artist, who doesn't quite get it when I complain that I don't have any inspiration here. At any rate, the reason that I have been painting New England scenes non-stop for the past month, is simply because Maine has a painting to be painted around every single corner!

Today I went back to my color studies and decided to do something that I knew would be easy- a triadic study using the three primaries. So I used a cool and warm blue ( cobalt and ultramarine) as well as a cool and warm red (Permanent rose and cadmium red) and a cool and warm yellow ( cad yellow medium and lemon yellow). Man was this one easy!

If you are a non painter reading this, let me explain.

There are three primaries- blue, yellow and red. From the three primaries you get all of the other colors on the color wheel. So thus I can mix a violet from blue and red, or a green from yellow and blue or an orange from red and yellow! Thus my choices of colors are unlimited when using the three primaries! Using 6 colors is even easier because I had a cool and warm of each, which when mixed together give you a pretty pure primary as well!

This was a huge difference from my struggles yesterday to paint with violet, viridian green and orange. You can make secondary colors from primaries, but you can't make primaries from secondaries. Hence all the grayish blues, reds and yellow in the last piece that I did.

Anyway, this painting is a view of the Ram Island Lighthouse from Ocean Point, which is just about a ten minute drive from Boothbay Harbor, Maine. You can see this lighthouse by boat if you are cruising to Monhegan Island and other islands in the area.

I hope that you have been enjoying all of my painting of Maine scenes. Please let me know if you are sick of them yet!

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"Morning Tryst-Bar Harbor"-16x12 , oil on board by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Morning Tryst-Bar Harbor"-16x12 , oil on board by Maryanne Jacobsen

Today I decided to try a different approach to the schooner that I'd photographed in Bar Harbor Maine.



If you have been following this blog, you'll know that I've been working on limiting my palette to create a more cohesive painting.

The last time that I painted this scene, I used an analogous palette, meaning that I took colors that were adjacent to each other on the color wheel. In my last painting, I used reds, blues and greens to create an analogous color study, making the warmest color on my palette a very cool red (magenta).

Here's what it looked like:



In this new painting (above) I decided to go with a triadic color study, meaning that the colors are evenly spaced around the color wheel. I decided not to use primaries, and instead went with complimentaries, using orange, violet and viridian green, while completely omitting blues, yellows and reds from my palette.

I must confess that this was hard for me, just as the analogous study was!

I cheated a little bit and towards the end I added magenta, which is either a very warm violet or a very cool red, depending what you are thinking. I decided to put it in the purple family and thus make it legit for my study, and I must confess that the painting kind of needed that little pop of red!

I was pretty happy that I was able to get through this process.

The hardest thing for me, was to be without blue in a seascape. I had to keep adjusting the viridian and the violet in order to get my blues, and that was very challenging for me.

On the positive side, I was happy that the end result looked unified and yet still colorful!

Let me know what you think of my triadic color study.

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"Blue Hydrangeas and grapes", 18x24, oil on canvas

"Blue Hydrangeas and grapes", 18x24, oil on canvas

I decided to do another painting with cool colors and a limited palette. I figured that blue hydrangeas would make for a good subject and so I went to Whole Foods and found what I was looking for. I had a little pink and yellow-colored hydrangea in my garden, and decided to add that to the set-up, since the tea cup had pink in it. I'm happy with the way that the painting came out, and for the first time I woke up the next day and decided not change anything.

I am one of those people that has been known to futz with a painting too much, ultimately destroying any spontaneity it ever once knew. I am beginning to realize that when a painting turns out less than successful, it's better to put it away for awhile, rather than beating myself up over it. Then, often I'll take it out months later and realize exactly what I had done wrong. Which tells me that I've improved! I decided that if I try to fix every unsuccessful painting, how will I ever see my progress? (assuming that I'm actually able to fix it!)

I like my new philosophy. Artists tend to be too hard on themselves, and I am no exception. That's what makes us improve, however, the need to be better than what we were.

Here's the set-up that I used for the painting:

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"Into the Wind", 8x8, oil on board, by Maryanne Jacobsen

"Into the Wind", 8x8, oil on board, by Maryanne Jacobsen

I actually never thought that I'd have fun painting boats.

Go figure.

But after seeing all the diversity of boats, (new and old, tourist and workhorse,) up in New England, I became intrigued with the idea of learning to paint boats well. Of, course , that will take some time. But in the meantime, I am practicing with all the photos that I have taken from my trip to Maine and Cape Ann.

This painting was very challenging for me. I'd noticed that I have been putting a predominance of warms in my paintings and am not having enough cools to balance them out. So I gave myself a challenge today. I limited my palette extremely!

Yes, I said extremely!

I had absolutely no oranges on my palette or yellows!

I used the coolest red imaginable (Magenta) as my warmest red, and added a cool red (violet) to balance it out. I added a cool blue (cobalt) and a warm blue (ultramarine), plus a cool green (viridian) and a warm green (cinnabar) and that was all I used! Does anyone have any idea how hard this was for me- a colorist?

That normally has a zillion colors on her palette?

At any rate, I like the fact that the painting looks uniform. That's what I was seeking when I started out. I know I could have really popped those sails with some yellow and oranges, but guess what? I used restraint!

The boat in the painting is some sort of tourist boat that goes out of Bar Harbor on a regular basis. It's really lovely with those maroon sales, and I was happy I was able to catch a photo of it while we were there to use as a reference for my painting!

I decide not to add the flags, because that begged color!

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