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Lucinda Howe is a Contemporary Fauvist landscape painter in Columbia, SC.
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Botanical Garden

Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden was the site of the third Saturday plein air excursion last week.  The botanical garden featured cobalt blue pots with lavender-painted curly willow, violas, and white tulips contrasting with the […]

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Hunting Island Palms

This small painting was created on location at Hunting Island State Park.  I used a thin wash of gold and lavender gray to suggest filtered sunlight and trees in the background and painted the palms […]

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Hunting Island Evening

This week’s painting is another small piece from a recent trip to Hunting Island.  I didn’t want to set up my easel because it was getting dark and it was quite windy on the beach. […]

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Hunting Island Path

This small painting is from a wonderful trip to South Carolina’s Hunting Island State Park this past weekend.  It is painted on rough paper using fluid acrylics in a watercolor technique.

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Golden Fluid Acrylic Paints

  Since I’m teaching a class for the next few weeks, I thought I would address a few of the questions that come up in the class.  One of the first things we discuss is […]

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From One Lily Pad to Another

Thanks to everyone who walked with us “In the Steps of Van Gogh” this weekend.  It was a splendid exhibit of paintings inspired by the hill towns and vineyards of southern France by Donna Lynn […]

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Walk in Provence February 10-12

I would like to invite you to walk “In the Steps of Van Gogh” at the opening reception this Friday evening, February 10, 6-9 pm at my studio. In a recent trip to the Provence […]

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Waterlilies at Sandhill

As a landscape painter, I want my paintings to have sense of place.  Each location affects me differently and affects the outcome of the painting.   I try to communicate the feeling of the location […]

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3 Steps to Jump Start Your Creativity

In an earlier post, I asked what you would like for me to write about.  One of the requests I received was for a creative jump start. Over the years, I’ve read many books about […]

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February Art Events

You know how everything seems to happen at once?  Well, February is shaping up to be one of those times for me!  I have several events I would like to invite you to attend…. First […]

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