A Pickleball friend saw this landscape I painted of Foster Fields in Morristown, NJ and then commissioned her own ‘story’.

This is how I like to work…just visiting places and capturing beauty wherever. Working with someone else’s STORY, and using THEIR REFERENCES, well. For me, that’s more exciting and challenging. So, after I listened to my friend’s touching story, the landscape moved to Acadia National Forest in Maine where she and her husband had spent many wonderful trips. She shared several favorite photos from their travels and explained why the painting would be special to her. My initial sketches were in pencil.

After compiling several drawings that pulled the landscape together I started to work on a sepia-toned wash to map out the scene and give it depth.

The final Image made her tear up. I was so happy with the finished work!