Nita Léger Casey: maple sugaring

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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Vermont Sugar house

watercolor 6x8 ©2014
Tim and I have just spent a wonderful couple days in Quechee to celebrate our Anniversary, a beautiful area with lots of interesting scenery like barns ,covered bridges and lots of sugar maple farms, it is the season to tap the sugar from the maple trees you have a short window to do this, cold nights and warm days of course I love to see the buckets hanging from the trees but now in large farms they just use plastic tubing to be collected in large blue buckets, progress does not help my paintings! email me if you are interested in this watercolor . nlcasey@charter.net

Friday, March 29, 2013

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

Thursday, March 11, 2010

" the notice " watercolor 10x7 (C)2010
Nita Leger Casey

The area has buckets in all the maple trees , next year I am tapping mine , I need to buy some buckets , I have beautiful maple trees , actually a local person has tapped them before, I know it takes a lot of sap for the little syrup you will get .
I don't know where this week has gone Friday already and I was not that productive this week , again a lot of driving !
this painting is available , email me ,nlcasey@charter.net

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Parker's maple sugar, miniature watercolor (C)2010
Nita Leger Casey sold
It has been a few days since I posted , the good weather arrived and I got distracted , also comes the many chores of cleaning after winter , when the snow melts , it's not pretty out there , lots of work in the yard . Yesterday my friend Margrit came up from the Cape , I was very happy to see her , so we celebrated with a quick trip to Mason NH to Parker's maple house , it used to be one of our favorites years ago to make the trip and take pictures of all the buckets on the trees , it must be a good year , they was hundred of buckets everywhere ,we also had a wonderful lunch there , lots of things made with maple syrup .
This is a true New England experience .
the miniature is available , just email me nlcasey@charter.net

Monday, March 16, 2009

This old maple tree, copyrighted by Nita Leger Casey
Large watercolor on board 19x24 matted to 25x30

New England has very old trees , lots of them are maples , this one was probably planted when the house was build in the late 1800 , or early 1900 , this one also has a maple syrup bucket and a swing on it . I found this house in NH a few towns over from where I live . This painting was part of my collection , but I decided to put it for sale , so let me know if you are interested in this large watercolor that depict the season right now , March! nlcasey@charter.net.
make me reasonable offer , but don't forget it's a larger one .

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Twin sugar maples , copyrighted 2009
Pastel on board 5x7

My subject are all around me when you live in New England , few days ago a sugar maple farmer taped the trees right across the street from my house , they belong to the town , I actually have some huge maples in my yard also . I love to see the buckets every springs , you need warm days and cold night to get the best maple syrup , some area they have gone modern and simplify the process , they have this blue tubing going from tree to tree and to a big plastic barrel , it's just not the same ! I will need to catch the farmer picking up his buckets to take a picture of him . After you have had the real maple syrup , you would have a hard time going with that commercial stuff. Email me nlcasey@charter.net if you are interested , $ 99.00

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Maple syrup buckets

I got up this morning exited to go back to the same spot I was yesterday to capture the buckets on the trees, and believe me, I was lucky! because they later removed them for the season. We are also getting more snow in a day or two, so I did enjoy the plein air today, met some nice people while painting and found a great country store to have a warm cup of coffee, all in a day's work of a plein air artist!

This is a 8x8 oil on canvas , not available at the moment, being entered in a show .

email me nlcasey@charter.net

Monday, April 09, 2007

Maple syrup time
Sold

After a nice Easter, it's back to work in the studio, I had to deliver some work in New Hampshire first , I only live a few miles from the State line , on my way to my destination I came upon the scene I wanted to do today. Only a few places you see this, so it was worth me stopping. Maple sugaring is a very New England thing and a very short season , I will go back tomorrow if weather permit, so I only painted a small miniature ACEO .2/5 by 3/5

email me if you are interested.

All my work is original and and copyrighted ,may not be reproduced

Artist statement

Artist statement

I am an Artist who has painted most of my life and enjoy every minute of it. My journey in the art world continually evolves keeping up with the time, I paint in many different medium and love them all. My collection of work is primarily in oils and I use watercolors for commissions, illustrations, and pastels for my own pleasure. My love for architecture shows in my work and many have compared my style with Edward Hopper. I feel honored to be compared with such wonderful artist. I paint daily in the studio and plein air when weather permits. I try to paint from life as much as possible. Last year I gave up teaching art after thirty years of private classes and, now enjoy my former student’s accomplishment in the arts. Many collectors around the world own my work and hope many more will in the future.

The best is yet to come – enjoy my journey!

Nita Leger Casey

www.gingerbreadartgallery.com

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Nita Léger Casey