Hills Beach cottages

Hills Beach cottages ©2020 Nita Leger Casey 

6x12 Acrylic  Original painting 

Bring the memories of Summer home with you ! Perfect gift for someone who loves Maine .

 $175.00 including shipping in US only 

  email me if you are interested nlcasey @charter.net

 

Biddeford Pool, Maine

Biddeford Pool , view from the Sanctuary 
Acrylic 3x5   ©2017 ,Nita Leger Casey
 I recently spent a few days in the area of Biddeford pool, Maine .What a lovely place, so many beautiful scenes to paint, I actually already painted this one in a watercolor but I wanted to try a different medium ,this one is smaller a 3x4 on a panel .Looks great sitting on a easel!
 if you are interested email me : nlcasey@charter.net .
   

East Point Sanctuary, Biddeford Pool,Maine

Biddeford Pool, Maine
watercolor 6x8
 by Nita Leger Casey
©2017
 I have been away in Maine, took a break from painting and worked on some other craft  like Quilting !
 But on my way back I stopped  to visit my children on the coast, I took a nice walk in this sanctuary with my daughter in law , just love the rocky coast of Maine.
 This painting is available email me,
 nlcasey@charter.net

Fire Weeds and cottage

 Original pastel, 11x14
©2017 Nita Leger Casey
Thinking about Maine right now, the place I love to paint ! looking through some past work, I Always loved this cottage that I painted one summer in the small village of Cutler , I still have it and wish it would find a home. So many cottages on the coast of Maine,  some are loved and some are not, but I always find the beauty on all of them . 
email me if you are interested
nlcasey@charter.net 

Hills Beach marsh,Maine

Happy New year to all my wonderful followers and collectors! To start the new year, 
I am challenging myself to do a painting most days in January, they are small works ! perfect for the beginner collector.     email me nlcasey@charter.net
" Hills Beach marsh " pastel 5x7 ©2016 Nita Leger Casey
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Original Miniature , Mink Island

Colored pencil 

6x3 ©2013

Nita Leger Casey

At the present I am working on some large paintings for a show in my own studio , sort of a whole new collection of work for all the big open studios and Holidays coming up, yes the summer is just about done!  so for now I am going to post some miniatures I have done this summer while at my retreat in the Lubec area.
When these small  gems one are framed they do look good in a grouping and are all original. so start collecting!  email me for more details , nlcasey@charter.net
  

A gift for Dad

A little bit of Maine

oil on canvas

6x6 ©2013

Happy father's day

Let Dad dream about going on vacation early ! buy him a small painting for his office ,sure would make the perfect gift! I take paypal
 Framed $100.00 email me nlcasey@charter.net

Pemaquid point,Maine

Pastel 11x14 framed

white mat with a dark wood frame

©2013 Nita Leger Casey

This is a  pastel painting done on location (Plain Air ) who needs a home to go to, maybe for

Father's day !

Maybe a Dad has gone to the Maine coast and loved it and he would like this for his office, it's all professionally framed $350.00, email me for more details.

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.  

Cutler village

9x12 Watercolor (c) 2012

Nita Leger Casey

The paintings I have posted are from my summer in Maine, The cute little village of Cutler on the Maine coast below Lubec. I have painted there at least once a year for the last 20 years, it has not changed! well maybe they don't have a store anymore so if you need milk or want a cup of coffee ,you might have to drive 20 miles for that ,but they have plenty of lobster! If you are interested on this painting email me nlcasey@charter.net

Small island at Bailey's mistake

  watercolor sketch of the Island , 8x10 (c) 2012
Nita Leger Casey
Yesterday I posted a path going to a small island, here it is! at low tide you are able to access this small jewel in the bay of Fundy, a beautiful cove called Bailey's mistake,I have done it before in a previous year, it's not that easy! a few of my friends did venture and painted there this year, you just have to make sure you come back before the tide or you are there for a long while.  The chances we take when we paint plein air! but what fun it is.
This was done as a quick watercolor  vignette on an acrylic paper alsmost a canvas like, gives a different affect.

lonely cottage with boat

Oil 16x20 by Nita Leger Casey
copyrighted 2012
This is a lovely painting who needs a home , would look perfect in a Maine cottage,or if you dream of having a cottage of your own , or if you are decorating a room that needs that last detail going over the fireplace .email me it is a reasonable price .nlcasey@charter.net

Pen and Ink sketch at Ocean Breeze

 8x10 sketch ,pen and ink (c) 2011 Nita Leger Casey
Here is another sketch done this summer before I painted a Pastel version of this scene ,yesterday it was a pencil one , I just taught I would show some of my process before painting some of my work , of course being a  very impatient person  I don't always do that and go right to the paint brush., this was the front porch where we were staying this summer ,a wonderful view on to a bay called Bailey's mistake  on the Bay of Fundy . Some great work happened right there on that table  when you have 8 artists painting away !lots of fun ...

Morning Landscape
5x7 Watercolor (C) 2011
Nita Leger Casey

Morning watercolor from my recent retreat in Lubec. I just got back from the cabin in Maine with more beautiful scenes I would like to do, but tomorrow I must go to the studio for the first Saturday of the month open studio , I am looking for it as I have neglected quality time there , I think I need a clone of myself , I want to be in Maine most of the summer but then again my poor studio is there empty , so tomorrow it you are in the area come and visit . I will be there !
This painting is available Email me nlcasey@charter.net
Open studio at Western Avenue Studios ,in Lowell Ma noon to 5 PM

Morning fog on the coast,
4x5 oil on board , copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Just remembering the nice summer in Maine , this was one of our typical morning there , before the fog would lift , I love that kind of morning!
Fall is starting fast a lot of leaves are falling already after this extreme hot and dry summer , I wonder if the fall will be as beautiful it should be , we will see in a few weeks , my brush and paint will be ready!
This painting is available , email me if you are interested, reasonable price!
nlcasey@charter.net

Maine coastal rocks
3x5 oil on copper ,copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Well I am back home from my two weeks in Maine and Canada , it was an 8 hour drive and very tired today , finely unloaded the car , the worst is putting things away! While I was there my post were short , I wanted to write more but between the WIFI not working well ,and being very busy everyday.
In the next few days I will write more about my journey there .
This painting was done on a limited palette of two colors , I like the affect !If you are interested let me know . nlcasey@charter.net

Fireweed in Maine

pastel 11x14

Nita Leger Casey

Here is my painting for today! one more days before we go home!
lots of work done and very happy!
Have to go now ......

"American pride "
Acrylic on board copyrighted , 11x14
Nita Leger Casey

This is a re post of a house I painted on location in a small village of Machais Port in Maine . I go paint there every summer , I will be there next week ! really looking froward my two weeks of painting retreat .
Today it was a brutal hot day in New England went over 100 degree , very hot for us , we are not used to this, I mostly spent time doing some organizing in the gallery and get my art supply ready for the trip.
I would love to find a home for this painting $300.00 email me if you are interested nlcasey@charter.net

Beach roses and lupins
Pastel, 6x6 copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey
On the cost of Maine with the Pastel Painters of Maine at a retreat at Pemaquid point , just a wonderful treasure spot on the coast, staying in a Victorian Hotel ,it's like going back in time .This is my third year with the group,this year I was chosen to give the critique after our first day of painting, it was a lot of fun we are 25 artists.

Coast of Maine , oil on copper 5x7
copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

In the past year I have two friends Ingrid and Susan who have painted on copper ,and I wanted to try this new surface , I knew I had some in the basement , I must of bought 20 years ago for some other project, looking for something else in the basement I came across the copper , a bit out of shape but managed to get it back in to shape and painted this scene from memory , a place I often paint in the summer . I was surprised how it went so nicely on the surface .I am not an expert on this, it was a trial , Susan Renee Lammers has done some nice paintings in Arcadia National park. Ingrid Christensen also has painted beautiful portraits on copper . They were two nice artists I had the opportunity to meet and spend time with last years. There is not much I have not tried when it comes to art . In a future post I will have to think of what medium or surface I have not painted with . To be continued .....