Cannon Mountain from Sugar Hill

Cannon Mountain from Sugar Hill   Sold
Pastel 11x14 ©2020 Nita Leger Casey

Yesterday I posted about being in South Carolina, but the week before I was at a painting retreat at  The Inn at Sunset Hill in New Hampshire . Having a great time with all my Artist friends,10 of us who have gone there for many years, and just love this place. A place we can relax and step outside to do Plein Air and forget about the rest of the world, end the day with a great meal, a glass of wine and telling wonderful stories. We did get some news about the pandemic in Europe, but seemed so distant and it would never affect us, little did we know it was coming !
The view from the Inn is just beautiful and changes by the minute of the day, this was when the sky was changing at the end of the day and managed to capture that little pink in the sky.
This painting is available , $300.00 .email me for details nlcasey@charter.net  

Room at the Inn

Watercolor,6x8.©2018
Paula's room
Nita Leger Casey
In February ,my friends and I went to the Sunset Hill Inn for a mini painting retreat, and I decided to paint our rooms and beds, kind of a fun project ! and the beds had to be messed up, to be more interesting.  So here is one ,this room is very pretty and also has a fireplace. 
email me if you are interested,
nlcasey@charter.net

Sugar Hill ,NH. Winter at the farm

Casein painting 5x7
 ©2017 Nita Leger Casey
 Another scene from  my recent trip To Sugar Hill ,NH. I love this beautiful farm, this is the second time painting it, I just love all the buildings on this property, our three days there ,it snowed the entire time, it was so beautiful taking a drive in the snow finding these very New England like Christmas card scenes.
email me if you are interested nlcasey@charter.net

Mount Lafayette

Mount Lafayette,NH 
 Pastel  5x7©2016 Nita Leger Casey .
 About five years ago I went painting with a group, it was called Snow Camp ! Stapelton Kearns was our teacher, and believe me it was cold 14 below 0, I did couple oils from that location on Sugar Hill. It was great fun and a big challenge not to freeze to death! So this morning I was looking at the painting that was done on location and decided to paint it again ,in a small format and different medium. When I came back, I remember everyone saying did you paint freeze? FYI oil paint does not freeze!
 ‪#‎sugarhill‬ ‪#‎Newhampshire‬ ‪#‎Nitalegercasey‬ ‪#‎Westernavenuestudios‬ ‪#‎pastelpainters‬. this painting is available email me nlcasey@charter.net

Small NH pond

Original  Pastel 5x7 ©2016 Nita Leger Casey
A small pond from our Sunday drives to New Hampshire. I am In the pastel mode right now at the Atelier, after cleaning my box of Pastels. Painting small works post card size for the beginner collector, a great way to collect originals! The Studios are open every first Saturday of the month. Come by and see all the artists! if you are interested email me ,
nlcasey@charter.net

View from Sugar hill Inn
oil 16x20 (c) 2011
Nita Leger Casey

Went to the studio today and touched up a painting I had done a year ago in Plein air at snow camp with Stapelton Kearns , with temperature 14 below 0. sure was cold !
It needed a few touches here and there, I like it better now, I figured I better do this now as I am going back there in a few weeks, I think it will be a reunion , It will be nice to see some old friends and talk shop . Stape is so knowledgeable about art history, it's a pleasure to listen to him at night while we are all sitting around the table .
We are waiting for some snow here , seems like the South is getting all the snow this year .

Hollis Village Monument Square
Watercolor , 5x7 copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Just a beautiful day in New England today! made me join all my Breakfast club Friends in a Plein air painting day in Hollis, NH. about 10 of us gathered around the square and painted this quint village , we all have a different style that's what makes it fun !
I first had a real Breakfast with my family visiting for the 4 th of July, we went to the Midfield cafe at the Nashua Airport , perfect place to take kids to see small planes landing and takeoff .
Well tomorrow it's a big celebration in our town , big parade and a cook out at my son's house with many friends and relatives ,
This painting is available , hope the gentleman who looked at it this afternoon might get the OK from his boss! email me nlcasey@charter.net if you are interested, this painting comes matted and a certificate of authenticity.

" 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

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

Shadows on the road , oil miniature (c) 2010
Nita Leger Casey

When you drive in the back roads of New Hampshire ,this is what you see , lots of shadows crossing the roads , lots of snow banks and sometimes some colorful foliage, it sure made me stop to take a photo . It was another very nice day today , I tried to find a place to paint in plein air,, but all the places I wanted to paint , they was no way to park my car for a long time , so i contented myself just to take many photos of the beautiful winter landscape , later Tim and I drove to visit some relatives we have not seeing in a long time , all in all a good day !
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Antique Cape , miniature oil 2,5x3,5 on canvas board (c) 2010
Nita Leger Casey

On our last Sunday ride ,I took a few photos of old houses , what else ? addicted to the antique houses of new England , I like a small Cape , they look small and cozy . This one was in New Ipswish NH.
So I painted a mini , still painting some commissions for a NY collector , so I squeezed this one in between !
Also want to tell you about a wonderful blog from a lady name Vee who blogs about New England, "A heaven for Vee "by founding my blog she found we had a common interest yes Beautiful New England , so today she featured some of my paintings , so nice , Thank you Vee
Check it out ! a wonderful blog with a lot of information

New England Winter backyard , watercolor 10x16 (c)
Nita Leger Casey

We had a wonderful Christmas with the family , and it keeps going until New Year , too much food ... also limited on time to paint with little grandchildren in my studio and taking my computer over.
The end of December , in a full winter mode here , lots of country backyard look like this and probably will until spring . This is an older painting looking for a home. This scene might be nostalgic for someone , email me if you are interested ,