Brick house by the pond

Watercolor 9x12

matted and framed (C) 2012

Nita Leger Casey         sold

This is a painting I painted last year while visiting Maryland and took my grandson along to explore the area, it was right on the Mason Dixie line, really interesting area, beautiful farms all so clean and well kept.I really would love to find a home for this painting! $175.00 all framed with a nice dark wood frame .
email me if you are interested nlcasey@charter.net

Today's proud American

Watercolor 6x8 (c) 2012

Nita Leger Casey

Tomorrow is a big day for the Country, when I painted this farm last year in a small town in Maryland ,I was thinking that this farmer was a proud American of his beautiful farm, I love red barns!
This week end my show opened, it looked really nice, the opening was well attended with friends and family, it was a great time to share with everyone.  A few collectors added some paintings to their collection it sure made my day !
email me  nlcasey@charter.net if you are interested in this painting ,$ 100.00 matted and shipped.

Proud to be an American Farmer

Watercolor 7x8, copyrighted 2011 by Nita Leger Casey
Working from my recent Maryland trip, wanted to paint them before I loose the interest with the Holidays coming , I love farms  and barns , this one caught my attention first the red barn and this farmer must be proud to be an American and I love that !In Maryland the farms are so clean and well kept ,wish it was like that everywhere.
I am also working very hard for our two open house week ends in December , I am making beautiful paste paper ,good for scrap booking also making small journals , they all will be at the studio for sale .
this watercolor is available by emailing me nlcasey@charter.net , it would make a nice present for someone who collects old farms .

After church

Watercolor 5x7 " After Church" copyrighted 2011 by Nita Leger Casey

When I was in Maryland a couple weeks ago , my grandson and I went into the country side on Sunday morning  when we came upon a Mennonite church , the young girls where  outside waiting for their ride , the boys were on the other side , I took this photo in my rear view mirror , I was a little afraid to do it ,but it was a picture moment  ! I don't often do figures but i just wanted to do it in a very loose style .

Somewhere on the Mason and Dixon line

7x10 watercolor ,copyrighted 2011
Nita Leger Casey
Monday while in Maryland I took a drive with my grandson  to take some photos , we were right on the Mason and Dixon line so at times we where in PA ,and sometimes in Maryland , we took lots of photos , we came upon this scene that was so picturesque with all the geese in the small pond , I knew I would paint it , and that is what I did today at my studio after being away for a week it was nice to be there again , this Saturday we are open so if you are in the area ,come by!
email me nlcasey@charter.net,  if you are interested in this watercolor . my work is very affordable .

sketch #2 of Maryland trip

watercolor (c)2011,by Nita Leger Casey   sold
This sketch was done from my  kitchen window at my son's house , I was having my breakfast when all I could see was these beautiful shadows across the street, so the sketch book came out at that time ,I think I captured the scene the way I wanted .This afternoon I took Carson and we went for a photo shoot of all the beautiful farm around,we had a lot of fun finding some beautiful places , laundry lines with Monday's wash ,cows sheep and lots of duck and Geese .
 He said on our way back ,it was a lot more fun then I thaugh .he took 75 photos ,he is 7 years old

The laundry is out
miniature watercolor copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Not posted for a few days , we came back from our trip in Maryland to have Tim having to go to the hospital with pneumonia ,so my trips have been back and fourth there ,he is doing a bit better keeping him for the week end .
I painted this on our trip last week the fresh laundry at the farm , that day my little grand son also painted along with me ,it was fun !
tomorrow ,it is open studio at the Mill ,if you are on the area come back and visit!
this mini ,is $ 25.00 comes with a nice card and certificate . nlcasey@charter.net

Leitersburg, Maryland

watercolor 5x7

Nita Leger Casey

Still in Maryland with the family,but going home tomorrow after a wonderful week end with my grand children, one grand son who loves to paint ,and has been at my side every minute painting away!
Cute village close to Hagerstown .
email me if you are interested $100.00 matted and free shipping

The Maryland red barn

5x7 watercolor copyrighted2010

Nita Leger Casey

Visiting the grand children in Maryland for the week end , Halloween is a big celebrations down here ,they just had a parade in Hagerstown that lasted three hours ,our grandson was in the parade with his Scout troupe ,they worked on the float all day and looked very nice !

This afternoon I took a ride to the beautiful Maryland farm country, a routine I do every time i come here , painted this small watercolor from my car ,I have painted this scene in winter before ,just a different style barn from New England.

I also joined my friend Renee Lammers on a challenge to paint everyday in the next 30 days,

no problem for me !

"Western Maryland winter village "
6x8 oil on Wallis
copyrighted 2008

This village looks like a Christmas card . I was in Hagerstown last winter at my son's house ,when we had a snow storm ,to my delight I went all around the area to paint and take photos of these beautiful German looking villages ,and farms, knowing that one day I will paint them , and this is the season! talk about season! we are waiting for a big snow storm ourselves tomorrow.
email me if you are interested in this painting .nlcasey@charter.net

"House on winter hill "
6x8 oil on Wallis paper
copyrighted 2008

Winter is coming upon us fast, so I decided to start painting some winter scenes , I love old houses so when I have a chance to see one with some character, I always take pictures , this one is in deep Maryland Washington county , I have a son who lives in the area and I get to explore the back roads of Maryland at times.
Small paintings like this are a great way to start collecting scenes with different seasons,or different styles ,I never get tired to look at my own collection of art from other artists. email me if you are interested , nlcasey@charter.net

Sketch of historic Hager house in Spring
Time to get home , tomorrow we will be driving all day to get back to Massachusetts,I have taken lots of reference photos and sketches to paint from , we had a nice time with the family.
my post are from my sketchbook.
8x10 watercolor email nlcasey@charter.net

Red Barn sketch

We are home after being gone for 6 days, I am ready to continue working on some projects I had put aside before this short trip, of course I now have more material and ideas to work from.

Also my show is coming up in about 10 days. Oh boy, I better get to work!

Here is another trip sketch #4 Watercolor 8x10 .

Sketch #3 farm house in Western Maryland

In my last day of visiting my family,tomorrow we will be on the road all day returning to Massachusetts,we had a wonderful visit with everyone ,they even gave me time to go out painting witch I did this morning ,I went back to the farms I found yesterday and painted this

sketch from the car, it was great!

sketch in watercolor 8x10 will be a painting later on .

Busy today with the family, but managed to do a quick sketch from the window, it snowed all day yesterday,it was very pretty this morning with this fresh cost of snow , I never have visited this area when they had snow,this afternoon we took a drive to west Virginia,visited some old Friends,beautiful country side perfect for plein air painters.

this is just a trial working from the laptop away from the studio .Just a sketch!