Thursday, March 08, 2012

"Portland Head Light", 12x9, oil on canvas, palette knife, impressionism, Maryanne Jacobsen award-winning painting, impasto

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"Portland Head Light", 12x9, oil on canvas

This painting just came back to me after being in the Paint America Top 100 tour. I painted it well over a year ago and it has thick impasto throughout. If you are interested in purchasing this painting, please send me an email at maryannejacobsen@aol.com.

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This beautiful light house off the coast of Portland , Maine has been immortalized on canvas, in photography, as well as in poetry for many centuries. It is truly a magnificent site to behold what with the beautiful lighthouse perched atop the rocky cliffs overlooking a wild Atlantic Ocean crashing frenetically at its feet.Historian Edward Rowe Snow wrote, "Portland Head and its light seem to symbolize the state of Maine -- rocky coast, breaking waves, sparkling water and clear, pure salt air."

The hundreds of thousands of people who visit Portland Head each year would agree; this is one of the most strikingly beautiful lighthouse locations in New England.

My hubby and I took at least a hundred pictures of this lighthouse. This one, with the foliage in the foreground, was the inspiration of today's painting.

I painted it with palette knife and tried to feel the motion of the waves as I attempted to interpret the scene on the canvas.

If you would like to read more about the lighthouse, please go here.




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