A touch of Spring in the woods.

Pastel9x12

©2013

Nita Leger Casey

Love the wild little flowers that comes up in the Spring, like violets and these blue ones not sure of the name ? it's a bit of magic every year! my friend's yard was covered with them. This was a plein air painting.
This pastel is available, just email me if you are interested , nlcasey@charter.net

Single house anyone?

6x6 pastel © 2013

Nita Leger Casey

What a beautiful day today,perfect to paint this scene, a single family home for  happy birds ,not sure what type goes in but looks homey ! I love Spring except for the pollen who is giving me problems, never had it before  last year, i guess when you get old you get everything, not good! email me if you are interested
nlcasey@charter.net

Red poppies

miniature series sold

acrylic on board © 2013

Nita Leger Casey

I came upon this scene a few years ago where the sun was shining on this barn and  the red poppies , I just wanted to paint it right then but on the side of the road was not possible, but thought to myself I will some day, so it took a while, I have many scenes like this that keeps coming back to me but sometimes just no time , I sometimes think I need a couple lives to achieve all the things I want to paint. With the good weather the yard keeps calling my name as well! 
at least my cold is better!

Baseball

Miniature series  sold

Nita Leger Casey

acrylic

©2013

I had a wonderful trip to Maryland  and nice visit with my children and grandchildren and watched a lot of baseball games, one grandson had two home run in one game, so I wanted to paint this for him . the one thing I came back with is a bad  case of bronchitis that has me tired, and the pollen in full bloom is not helping .Hopefully my life will get back to normal soon!

Spring at Pemaquid

miniature series  sold

(C) 2013

Nita Leger Casey

At the end of the month my friends and I are painting at this lighthouse ,I think my fifth year painting there with the Pastel painters of Maine. Will be in Maryland for a few days to see my grand son make his first communion and also watch lots of baseball games from two grandsons,hope to get a little painting done as well ! if you are interested on some miniature like this one email me nlcasey@charter.net

The cove

Miniature series Sold

(C) 2013 Acrylic

Nita Leger Casey

Just a small gem of a favorite spot of mine in the summer. I have painted this scene in many different style and medium, and never get tired of the scene.
Just came back from  a nice week end in Maine with Tim and my doggy, just to open up our small mountain cabin, It is so nice to see everyone back at the pond after a long winter, the loons are back as well as the ducks and geese. Looking foward to paint from there part of the summer.  

Tower Hill beauty

Miniature series  sold

copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

Last year I visited this beautiful garden in Massachusetts called Tower Hill gardens, they had the most beautiful big garden pottery and off course the most beautiful flowers.
I am having fun painting these miniatures ,but also can't wait to get back to my larger work!

Flowers on deck

Miniature series  sold

Copyrighted 2013 

Nita Leger Casey

We have just experience a week of unthinkable terror on our wonderful city of Boston, it had us glued to the TV this entire week, it was hard to concentrate on painting while people were in such pain and terror until they were arrested. We our proud of our Boston police !
The miniature painting is from a scene in Maine a place I would like to visit soon ! the weather is warming up so I hope it will be near future.

The Carrabassett river

Miniature series sold

Nita Leger Casey

(c) 2013

Just another one of my miniature series on order from a collector. I will post the whole series but if anyone is interested on one very similar please let me know. at nlcasey@charter.net
The Carrabassett River is a beautiful river along the Western Mountains of Maine ,also another place where my kids and grand children love to go in the summer for a cool swim.

The falls #2

Acrylic on board Sold

miniature series by Nita Leger Casey

(c) 2013 copyrighted

Another scene from the Falls a favorite summer place to be on a very hot day!

Today was a miserable day, rain sleet and snow, I think Winter came back !

I did paint most of the day, so it made my day at least a little better.

We ended the day with a nice dinner with friends!

email nlcasey@charter.net

The Highland falls

Miniature series

copyrighted 2013  sold

Nita Leger Casey

I was looking  at old photos and found this one of the falls in Maine, I took this photo longtime ago when the kids used to go there to swim also like to scare me in the process of their disappearing act under the falls, the tricks that you kids do to make their mother scream in panic!

I am in the process of painting a series of minis for a client so this was the first one for this batch !

  

A house on the pond!

5x7 watercolor

copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

It has been a week since I posted, I had a bout of arthritis that kept me a bit down  and not working on new stuff, I blame the Lyme disease for it, as the stuff stays in your body forever even if you have been treated ,I don't think doctors really know what to tell you! so many people have it.
 I painted this awhile back, the ice was melting on this pond where a beaver had himself a nice little house, if you love nature  and a beaver's life this is a cute watercolor to have .
email me nlcasey@charter.net
 

Life is good in Boston

6x8 watercolor

copyrighted by

Nita Leger Casey

A painting that needs a home !A scene from Newburry street, a perfect gift for someone who loves Boston ,an original watercolor is a wonderful gift!
Spring is here but the weather is still a bit cool. Tim and I did take a nice day trip to Maine on Saturday,my favorite place to be !
email me nlcasey@charter.net  $100.00 matted 

It's sugar time !

7x10 watercolor

copyrighted by

Nita Leger Casey

It's this time a year! the nights are cold and the days are warm a perfect time for Sugar maple syrup, if you live in New England right now, you will see buckets on the trees , I love the old buckets! I am not too happy with the new plastic one you see or bags, times have changed ! Our snow is almost all gone, crocuses  and snow bells are out, I am eager to start cleaning the yard !
Happy Easter to all my followers.
This watercolor is available ,$100.00 mated ,email me if you are interested .nlcasey@charter.net

Sepia sketch

watercolor sketch

copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

Today I was on duty for gallery sitting  at a special Francophonie exhibit in Nashua ,NH.  I wanted to do something to pass the time and brought my paints with me just to sketch a little, I had no pencil to draw, just decided to use my brush and use a sepia color, it came out better than I expected, sketching is always fun to do, it is a French farm house one of my nephew restored years ago.
Thank you for all the people who gave me comforting words about my chickens ,I do miss them ! 

Down in the village

Watercolor 8x10

copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

I painted this during the week but just getting to post it now, this was a scene from my recent trip to France, I just wanted to capture this great light, that got my attention while I was at this village visiting a castle above this little town, and the scene called for a watercolor .
Today was a bad day for me, my beautiful hens that I have painted a few times ,well this morning  a predator  killed them ,we think a fox my neighbor thinks a hawk ,not sure? I feel so bad for my little rooster who survived and now is all alone, he did put out a fight ,feathers all over the place.
email if you would like this watercolor  nlcasey@charter.net    

Hamilton cove ,pastel

Pastel 16x20 copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

Thinking of Summer made me paint this scene, I was looking through some quick sketches I had done on location, I knew I wanted to paint them again and this one was one of them, I love this small cove in Maine where my friends and I go every summer. Sure wish Spring was here for tomorrow but no such luck we must of got 14 inches of snow today and still  coming down ! today was my youngest son's birthday and thirty eight years ago he was born during a snow storm in Germany and I remember to be it as bad as today!
Any paintings you see on my blog are available, just email me for details nlcasey@charter.net 

Happy st Patrick's day

Ryan's beach on Dingle Peninsula

watercolor 8x10

copyrighted 2012

A little bet of Ireland  on this Special day! If you are Irish you will understand it!  I am not but after being married to an Irish man I feel like I am. I painted this scene last year on location when we went there about this time and had a great week there .I call it Ryan's beach but it's not the real name ,it's where they made the film Ryan's daughter year ago in the 70's

so to all my Irish family and friends ,have a great day !

this painting is available for $100.00 email me if you are interested , nlcasey@charter.net

L'allee du chateau

16x20 pastel

copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

Just coming back from France, it has me in a French scenes mode, I took this photo a few years back when I used to go visit my mother it was always in November, I had captured this row of trees that leaded to a small chateau, I just loved the shadows across, I had painted this scene in oil and always wanted to try it in pastel! It sometimes takes years to actually try something you always wanted to do, So this was the day! this painting will be framed under glass in a 16x20 frame .  If you are interested in this painting ,email me nlcasey@charter.net

The Chateau de l'etang

pastel 9x12,copyrighted 2013

Nita Leger Casey

Snowing again! but I used the day to be productive and paint at the studios ,my friend Paula asked me to stayed and paint at her studio with Peggy ,it was a perfect day for the company! we talked while painting, I decided on this subject, the first house Tim and I lived at when we got married in France. Today was our anniversary, so I went down memory lane talking about living there in this small chateau ,this was the back of it ,the front was more elaborate ,and the landlord lived downstairs,we also had our first child there. During my last visit I stopped there,it is now an art center, it was converted like thirty years ago .