Happy New Year to all , and thank you for visiting my blog, I am looking forward a wonderful new year with lots of new paintings and ideas ,I hope to find more collectors of my work , don't be afraid to ask questions and don't forget ,I do commissions .
We had a wonderful family day today , we took a ride in a horse drawn sleight ride trough the woods in a small town in NH , I really wanted to paint the scene , but we were 11 people in this ride ,our kids and grand kids , but I will make a trip back to capture the woods and the snow . actually it is snowing again tonight.
My series of lonely houses, Maine has many of these houses , just waiting for people to take care of them ,for me who like architecture, I am in heaven in my Summer travel of plein air painting ,they are posing for me , my friends also looks for them and say , did you see that house ? it's a Nita house.
This is a house I have come across in my travels in Maine , loved the architecture but not the sitting , I have taking artistic licence and gave it a mood and left a lot of the landscape , just kept it simple .I did a series of these old house , and still have a few and would love to find a home for them .so please email me nlcasey@charter.net
Having my grand children home for the holidays , not much time to paint , I will use this time to post commission houses from the past , this was a lovely home to work on ,the owners were very pleased to take the memories with them to their next house.
It was a beautiful day in this part of the country today , hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I took the day off from painting today.
In this busy season , I am only able to paint miniatures in between commission work, and shoveling the snow off the roof ,baking cookies and more.....
Winter today! but we already had five storms. I am exhausted from shoveling ,one thing the landscape looks like a picture post card.
We are in deep snow right now and it keeps on coming ,it makes the town look very pretty , I am the only one who thinks this way like most artist we see beauty in everything .
I work from this table when not at my easel, my easel goes with me most of the time for on location paintings. 
My small daily paintings are all over the place ,looking for a home , Please take me home!
My dog Clancy watching for possible costumers, he is my mascot in the studio , also have a cat molly .
A typical street of New England today, today's temperature is -5 and too cold for kids to be out, 
I drive around town sometimes just to find cute snowman , I took the photo last week of this one from our last storm , Well today , we have a real storm going on all day ,we are snowed in!
I finely got in the Christmas mood , or the winter mood , because I love to paint snow . After I cleaned and shoveled the driveway , I took a ride around town just to look at the beautiful snow scenes ,decorated doors , snow men's and the natural beauty of the snow everywhere , the way it cover everything in a white blanket. I will have the chance to really paint the stuff , we are getting another storm tomorrow night.
What a day today ! snow and more snow, my poor husband who had to go in Boston , it took him four hours to get home ,of the regular one hour trip. I painted all day , it kept me at my easel , 
Christmas lunch today, for the Breakfast Club, we are a group of artists who meet every Wednesday to share art adventures, dilemmas, successes ,critique, just about anything to do with art, we have been doing it for almost 20 years .We come from all around the Nashua ,NH area , I myself live in Massachusetts only 10 miles from Nashua we meet at Borders book store every week at 10 AM , any local artist is welcome.
Christmas is just around the corner, everybody is decorating their house ,it is a pretty time of the year ,I love all the houses at night with the candles in the windows, i want to do the house across the street, but too tired tonight, maybe tomorrow. this one was fun to do also.
This is a watercolor 8x10 mated to a 11x14 $ 100.00 email me if interested, this design is original and copyrighted . nlcasey@charter.net
check my other blog http://cardsalacarte.blogspot.com
A day to stay home today! with The icy weather outside it was a perfect day to catch up on things, when you are away from the studio for a couple days things add up , now applications for shows and competitions are coming in for next year.
Just finish a a two day show in Nashua , many people came strolling to the gallery in the old mill, all in The Christmas spirit . My friend Marilene Sawaf and a team of Artisans have done a lot of work for this show , they deserve an A+.check my other blog http://cardsalacarte.blogspot.com
The busy schedule of the holidays has started, and somehow not ready yet! I have one more show this week end Saturday and Sunday at Gallery one in Nashua, if you are in the area stop by, many artists will be there , paintings, jewelery , pottery etc...
It was too icy to walk early this morning ,but I looked out the window and I had a nice sunrise in front of me , so I took the pastels and did this before the coffee was made. My dog Clancy was not too happy but we did walk later. The chickens have been coop up the last two days , so I am taking a break with them .
I worked on Pierre today and brought back lots of memory of him , he would go on every decoration I would put in around the yard , he loved to model , I think he knew I would come with the camera to snap a shot ., if the door was open he would come right in like he owned the place , I will post a photo , so you can see him in my studio.
Our first snow is coming down , winter is here for sure, today my chickens had their last day walking the yard , they will definitely be cooped up for a few days. I winterised the coop so they will be fine!
