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Summer’s Here
I love to think of and have done several sketches of the flowers around the Fourth as fireworks- upspringing delphiniums, foaming yarrow- and what’s fun
July 2, 2024
9:28 pm
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TERRE LAMB SEELEY
MY blog- Locus Amoenus-
The Backyard As Paradise.
(locus- place; amoenus- charming, pleaSANT, agreeable)
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Burgeoning
This just had to have itself be painted. I’ve used iris in my work since I tried to transplant one of my grandmother’s plum-and-mauve-colored ones
June 13, 2024
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Equinox
Entry 16- A Wonder of Peach Pink
The Pink Full Moon. And with it our peach tree, only just starting to relax from her glory as the moon hits full. We
May 9, 2024
11:49 pm
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ABOUT ME
My Background
Terre Lamb Seeley has been drawing and painting since she was a very small child. Her family founded the oldest stained glass studio in the United States and she grew up in a home environment of art and art history. She became a painter after college where she had studied music and went on to create the calendar series “A Year in a Country House” which was first published in 1991.
My Inspiration
Are old houses really a part of nature? Well- they certainly can become so. The important houses in my life are all in the 150-year-plus range, with the exception of the house that used to belong to my brother, which doesn't save it from being in a constant state of resistance to natural entropy along with the older ones! I
Watercolor and Gouache
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My Medium
The materials I use for all my illustrative work are watercolour and gouache- an opaque form of watercolour- and watercolour pencils along with drawing and drafting pencils for sketching and layouts. While I love oil painting I need to be able to take whatever I’m working on with me anywhere, and to work outside it’s important to me to work from life and the immediate situation as much as possible. Watercolors and pencils also are great for journaling. I also like to play with collage for certain projects as I love different types of papers and fabrics, especially when bits of actual nature are in the mix- leaves, flowers, bark- whatever.
