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  

The King of the farm!

 King of the farm
pastel 6x8 ,©2017
Nita Leger Casey
I always love to paint  a chicken ounce in awhile , something about roosters ,I guess being French they are part of our National emblems. Having raised a few also, I  know them well!
email me if you are interested in this one.
nlcasey@charter.net

Latest commission

My latest commission
the boys! Pastel 16x20
©2017
A very enjoyable commission of two beautiful dogs ,I didn't have the best photos to work with,but knew they often sat together. The parents liked it! So that was the best part. When I do pets ,I like to do them in pastel.

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  

Orleans #3

Orleans #3

Watercolor  6x8

©2013 Nita Leger Casey

 

Just another view of my home town, with a little drama  of light, I had fun and a  little bit of a challenge to achieve the look I wanted . I was pleased at the end !
One more week before I get my new knee, I think I am ready , I have too many thing to do just sitting around .
I will be at open Studio this Saturday.
 if these watercolors are of interest please email me for the price  nlcasey@charter.net
reminder all my work is copyrighted.

Commission project

Commission 20x40 copyrighted 2012
Nita Leger Casey
Commission finish, cant wait for my clients to see it, I sure hope they like it .
Now I really need to continue working on all the paintings for my November one person show at the loading dock gallery, plus a little plein air here and there, the weather has been great so time to take advantage.

Rooster on Antique French cook book

Rooster on Antique French cook book
watercolor 5x7 (c)2011
Nita Leger Casey
I have been painting chickens on these antique book pages and having fun with it, they would look nice framed for a kitchen. I am at my son's house posting on this blog, we have been without the Internet for a week ,the repairman coming tomorrow morning , I have missed my computer so much ,we are so dependent on it.Thank god i do have a droid so at least i can see my emails .

Go Green!
Watercolor 5x7 (c) 2011
Nita Leger Casey
I must of passed twenty houses in the last few days where the laundry was out, what a refreshing site to see ! this one was down the road where we are staying , the sun was going down for a strong light,

The kids are going home !
A Lowell street scene
watercolor 10x7 (c)2011
Nita Leger Casey

I had a great day at my studio today ,I was to meet a client who did not come ,but in the process I painted two paintings ,this one is a view from the window of my studio on the fourth floor . It was about 2:30PM as I was sketching the painting the school bus made a stop at the top of the hill , that sure helped my painting! I was told by a visitor a while back when I showed him the oil I also painted from the same window last summer ,it was the neighborhood where they filmed the" Fighter " the film that is in theaters right now and it was filmed in Lowell , I did see a trailer for the film and you do see our mill in it . This painting is for sale ,email me nlcasey@charter.net

4x8 feet Mural copyrighted 2010 ,Nita Leger Casey


Project I am working on at the Mill where I have my new studio ,The fourth floor decided to add a little something to make our floor special , this is what I came up , after working on my Newburry series , we have Jewelers , dress makers ,lots of fiber artists, fine art , you name it it's here in this old mill, the dress was painted in no time , the bricks drove me nuts , but it's done and it was a change ! I painted this design in a miniature and now 8 feet tall .
( Top photo is the finished project)

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.

"Petite Fourmi "
,watercolor 6x6 copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Here is another one from my garden , with aunt this time !
well I am packing up for a mini retreat on the coast of Maine , really looking forward to see all my friends , many are on facebook , looks like the weather will be half nice , we will take what we get !
This painting would make a nice mate to the one yesterday , email me if you are interested .nlcasey@charter.net .
I will post from Pemaquid next!

oil on copper
Watercolor

Acrylic

Pastel
"Challenge with two colors ", all paintings are copyrighted 2010 by
Nita Leger Casey

This was a challenge we had with the artists Breakfast club in Nashua , to use two colors , yellow ochre and burnt sienna ,adding white and black as neutral ,because I initiated the challenge ,I challenged myself to do it in four different medium ,and this is my results , the scene was mine from my photo taken in Maine at the edge of the pond !
It is amazing how many colors you will get with this simple palette, you don't need to take a lot of paint with you when you go out painting .

Newburry Street at noon
watercolor 6x8, copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Here is another view of this famous Boston Street, I had lunch there yesterday , after doing some sketching in the park one street over , I am really getting to know the city , something I wanted to do for many years , you know you never know the town you are the closest to ,because we have a way to take things for granted , and always in a hurry , my husband thinks he knows it yes, he was born here ! but it has changed since the 1940's .
Don't forget , collect art ,collect original art, you will never be disappointed , it will make you happy !
email me nlcasey@charter.net

"Sketching on a Boston Park bench " copyrighted 2010
watercolor Sketchbook .
Nita Leger Casey

My weekly trip to Boston was great today , got in town early , as I arrived there I wanted to find out the name of a building I painted few weeks ago , the most beautiful building I have scene ,I feel very attracted to it every time I go in town and now I know why , it was designed after a French chateau of the Loire Valley where I come from , curious about the building I stopped and talked to two gentleman in the park and asked about it, they were very nice and gave me a bit of history , I later walked the entire length of the park on Commonwealth avenue and just admired the beautiful architecture on each side of the park , it was a beautiful sunny day ! I always enjoy talking to people who live in the area , lots of dog walkers also and got to pet lots of them .at the end of my walk , also got the see the dignitary of the city , the mayor was inaugurating a new bike path, i took lots of photos and now have more material to paint .

"Les volets bleu"
original watercolor 6x8 , copyrighted 2010
Nita Leger Casey

The sun was shinning so bright on of my front garden , I couldn't pass the opportunity to paint this scene ,of my beautiful parlor window, I feel so lucky to live in a old house in New England ! the Spring only last a couple weeks ,so they was no time to waist , with the lilacs in the background the fragrance is unbelievable.
Yesterday's Newburry street sold to a collector in Alabama , always happy to know my paintings finds a good home ! Like i said ," collecting originals is a good thing!"
so collectors, email me nlcasey@charter.net.

On the easel! commission of a house portrait in Pastel
Nita Leger Casey

I had to brake from my mode of the watercolor series I have been painting , and take the pastels out , I don't usually do the house portrait in this medium I actually prefer doing it in Watercolors but this was a special request, I still have a few hours of work on it for some details of windows door and the rocks .
Well this is a good example if anyone would be interested in a House Portrait , email me for the details . nlcasey@charter.net ,

" Coffee under the sun" miniature watercolor ,(C) 2010
Nita Leger Casey

Just got home after a nice long week end in Maine , and very tired from the drive . Here it is a miniature for the ACEO collectors , here is your chance email me if you are interested .
Coffee shop down town Boston , could be anywhere !

" A Boston Spring day"

original watercolor 6x8 copyrighted 2010

Nita Leger Casey

I am really having fun with these spring scenes of Boston , I am lucky I was able to capture the beauty of the city with my weekly trips in town , I always wanted to do this but never took the time . The second thing I am enjoying is painting with my watercolor , it's a medium I always loved and was using it mostly with my greeting cards illustrations ,and doing the plein air in other medium , and now with the good weather I know I will be doing more pastels outside. Galleries do not like to show watercolors ,they don't want to deal with the glass and framing , so being on line you can buy directly from the artist ,so collectors this is your chance .
for an original painting , email me nlcasey@charter.net

" Boston Architecture "

watercolor 6x8 copyrighted 2010

Nita Leger Casey

When you visit Boston and you see what beautiful architecture was built in the 1800 ,it is a treat to visit these beautiful street of downtown Boston when most builders were artists themselves .
I think this is why I love New England !The cities, small towns and country side are just an artist dream to paint.
collectors of watercolors , email me nlcasey@charter.net
Built in 1899 for attorney Albert C. Burrage. It was home to the Burrage family until 1947. It got converted into doctor's offices, later it became the Boston Evening Clinic, later still it became a nursing home and is now condos!
Similar to homes built on New York's Fifth Avenue, it was modeled after Chenonceaux, a chateau located in the Loire Valley of France, and represents the only example of the "chateauesque" style in Boston.

This striking building was designed by Architect Charles Brigham, who also designed the additions to the State House and numerous other buildings in Boston.
You can find this mansion on Commonwealth Ave at the corner of Hereford.