Author Archives: lucindahowe

Lucinda Howe is a Contemporary Fauvist landscape painter in Columbia, SC.
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Painting Large

  These palmetto trees are in our east side garden. We originally bought them to add interest in a boring section of the garden where we couldn’t get centipede grass to grow. Now they anchor […]

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Old Barn, Lake City

ArtFields in Lake City was a fun weekend.   Click here to see the prize winners.  I didn’t win a prize (this year),  but I had a good time watching the portrait competition, looking at […]

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Moore Farms Botanical Garden

This small painting was completed on site during a visit to Moore Farms Botanical Garden in Lake City, South Carolina, last fall. According to the website, “the garden was founded in 2002 by South Carolina […]

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ArtFields

ArtFields in Lake City, SC opens this Friday, April 25.  Please look for my painting Maritime Forest at Southern Distributing, 111 N. Church Street.  The painting was inspired by the landscape at Hunting Island, SC. […]

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Banana Plan

Now that the weather is warm, it’s time to weed the garden and plant vegetables and annuals.  I was looking for inspiration for planting and came across a photo of the bed by the front […]

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Supporting the Arts

This past weekend I went on the Columbia, South Carolina Open Studios tour with two other artists, Glenda Keyes and Barbara Yongue.  In the past, I have opened my studio to the public on these […]

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Pecan Grove

This painting is from the Women Painters of the Southeast plein air event in Greensboro, Georgia this past weekend.  The bright spring sunshine silhouetted the pecan trees and formed strong shadows in a vivid contrast […]

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I ♥ Chairs

  On a recent plein air excursion to the beautiful small town of Ridgeway, South Carolina, I was looking for a painting spot on Main Street.  This bright green chair in front of a store […]

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Tree and Lake

After a wet and cold week, a warm sunny Sunday inspired a plein air excursion to Clemson’s Research and Education Center near my home.  I liked a backlit tree with the strong shadows extending toward […]

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Artfields 2014

Detail of Maritime Forest 12×48″ Ink, watercolor, graphite, and acrylic on cradled panel @2014 Lucinda Howe   I’m excited to tell you that my painting “Maritime Forest” has been accepted into Artfields 2014 in Lake […]

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