The Tunkhannock Viaduct

 

Tunkhannock Viaduct, 9x12" Oil on canvas
© Helen Read

framed in cherry frame - ready to hang
(Domestic shipping included, IL residents please add 8% sales tax)

In this painting, I hoped to capture the grandeur of a landscape with man-made architecture in it. The lighting and the magnificence of the structure were of equal interest to my eye.  I happened, very unexpectedly, upon this scene traveling through northeastern PA - and was completely captured by the beauty of craftsmanship and God's beautiful creation!  

 

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Green Glade - oil pastel

 

Green Glade, 6x8" Oil pastel on paper

© Helen Read    
Matted in white for a 9x12" frame

A framed option  is available as well.

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Oil pastel is a beautiful medium!  And though I don't work in it frequently, this painting has such a wonderful mysterious sense of the woodland.  It is sold matted, either framed or unframed.  It's one of my favorites! 

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Elm Grove

Elm Grove,  14x18" oil on canvas

 ©Helen Read

Domestic shipping included,  IL residents please add 8% sales tax

ready to frame

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The beauty of spring in the midwest is especially stunning after a long cold winter of gray upon gray.  Within a few weeks, everything bursts into color and song!  This little glimpse is just around the corner in my neighborhood.  The ordinary becomes extraordinary!  Colorful light gives a cast of beauty to all it touches! 

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Today's Featured Painting! Summer Scents

 

Summer Scents (peonies),  7x5" oil on gesso board
©Helen Read

Framed option available - contemporary black wooden frame

approx 1" deep and 3/4" across the face
(ready to hang!)

 

Domestic shipping included.   IL residents please add 8% sales tax.  

 

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What speaks the lazy days of summer as much as a casual bouquet of peonies in an old fashioned mason jar?

These pink and white beauties are have such sweet aroma and that lovely pop of color, set against the beautiful blue of a country window and shutter.  I love the sense of calm serenity they give.

Perhaps they speak that kind of serenity to your heart.

Swedish Birches

 Swedish Birches,  matted in white to fit a 11x14" frame
oil pastel painting on illustration board
©Helen Read 

Unframed option - comes matted and ready to frame

Framed option - in 11x14" wooden frame (cherry finish) w/plexiglass

Domestic shipping is included, IL residents please add 8% sales tax.

Please visit this link for all the details, pricing, and framing option. 

Oil pastel is a beautiful medium for painting!  It's blendable, yet it shows expressive stroke marks.
This pastoral scene captures a Swedish countryside with a stand of young birches and wispy grasses in the foreground. Softly muted colors and a sense of minimalism that so is often expressed in Scandinavian design is exactly what this painting speaks to the viewer!  

It is shipped either ready to frame in a standard 11x14" frame, or framed in a simply beautiful wooden frame (1" deep x 3/4" across the face). 

A Virtual Studio Visit! Summer Cathedral

Summer Cathedral
20x16" oil on canvas
(ready to frame - or - with a frame option) 

©Helen Read
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