Post 361: BRS Bird Watching

Painting Name: BRS Bird Watching

Having grown up at Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia, I keep my eyes open for spots around the lake and great photos of the area that I might be interested in painting. This is the second photograph taken by Peter Olsen that I have asked for permission to use as inspiration artwork.

SKU: 10AO24ACG

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 14x14x1.5 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2024

Framed?: No

What Brought About this Painting?

Peter Olsen comes back to Blue Ridge Shores typically several times each summer and on Facebook, I often find and see the results of his camera. Always great photographs from around the lake, which goes by its acronym BRS and sometimes Lake Louisa. This summer of course, with the water level lowered because of the work being done on the new dam, all of the new growth of grasses made for a much different visual than is the usual. Nonetheless, Peter caught a Blue Heron and a White Egret in one photo, which also caught my eye.

I added the duck and the cardinal. Look closely to find the cardinal...

This painting is called "BRS Bird Watching" and is 14x14 painted with acrylics on a gallery wrapped canvas. I plan to bring this painting with me to the BRS Craft Fair held at the BRS Community Building on Saturday, November 23, 2024 in Louisa, Virginia.

The first photo by Peter that I asked permission to use was of an old pier on one side of the lake that was for all intents and purposes abandoned and left in disrepair for years. This is my version of his photograph, and I added a flying Blue Heron going past the broken down decking.

This painting is called "A Day at Blue Ridge Shores" and is 24x24 in acrylics on a gallery wrapped canvas. This one I will bring to the Fair as well.

See you at the Fair!

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Post 291: The Fish Aren't Biting at the Lake

Painting Name: The Fish Aren't Biting at the Lake

An acrylic painting by Donna Liguria of fishing on the lake at Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia.

SKU: 02E23AC

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 16x20 Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2023

Framed?: No

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What Brought About this Painting?

Living at Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia meant time on and around the water. From swimming to water skiing to carrying a fishing pole is and was a part of "lake life". Sometimes the fish are biting and you could look forward to a nice fish fry to occasionally, the fish weren't biting today.

Update: February 28, 2023 9:47am Here is an update to the painting

A lot of tweaking from the previous photo below?

The painting is pretty close to done - it's in the studying phase...which means I 'll look at it for a little while and put in a tweak here or there. Maybe. It will eventually end up on my Etsy page, but let me know if you like it or are interested in a print. Other Blue Ridge Shores prints are available on my Etsy page too.

Do you recognize the area of the lake this is?

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Post 283: Blue Ridge Shores, Louisa, Virginia As It Once Was

Blue Ridge Shores As It Once Was

I did some of my growing up at Blue Ridge Shores many moons ago. Spending my teenage years there was fun and when I see the main beach when I go to visit family there, I see it as it used to be too. This series of mini BRS paintings are how I remember the days at the lake. 

From the red, blue, yellow and green umbrellas that we used to hang our beach towels from and those big red and white barrels marking the swimming area - a LOT of time was spent on that beach. A lot of those houses were not there in the background as yet either, although my aunt's house at the top of the hill certainly was.

Painting Name: BRS Memory 1

SKU: 11FO22ACM

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 3x4 Mini Stretched Canvas with Easel

Edition Year: 2022

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There is a mini sand castle, bucket and shovel in the foreground as well.

Painting Name: BRS in 1970s 2

SKU: 11FP22ACM

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 3x4 Mini Stretched Canvas with Easel

Edition Year: 2022

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Painting Name: BRS Main Beach Retro 3

SKU: 11FQ22ACM

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 3x4 Mini Stretched Canvas with Easel

Edition Year: 2022

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Interested in a BRS Mini Painting? 

I also painted a series of Blue Ridge Shores Mini Paintings as they are today. All of the minis are available on Etsy @DonnaLiguriaArt - also found directly at Etsy Blue Ridge Shores

Other Blog Posts about BRS

I have written other blog posts about Blue Ridge Shores as well as painted a few other things at the lake, including some Blue Heron paintings. If you search on "Blue Ridge Shores" those should come up, here are a couple of them...

https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2022/07/post-261-day-at-blue-ridge-shores.html

https://donnascavepainting.blogspot.com/2021/06/blue-ridge-shores-louisa-virginia.html

I hope you enjoy.

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Post 261: A Day at Blue Ridge Shores

Painting Name: A Day at Blue Ridge Shores

Thanks to photographer Peter Olsen for the use of his wonderful snapshots of his visits to Blue Ridge Shores in Louisa, Virginia and the influence for several paintings I have done of BRS. And thanks to the Beckett's at BRS for those boat rides around the lake on summer evenings with my mom, bro and sister-in-law.

SKU: A Day at BRS 7-27-22 B

Medium: Acrylic

Size: 24x24 Gallery Wrapped Stretched Canvas

Edition Year: 2022

Framed?: No

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What Brought About this Painting?

Growing up at BRS was a wonderful experience for the most part and I've written about that before, and it's quite nostalgic - every visit. I've had this painting in mind for awhile, and finally started it while in Richmond, Virginia - house sitting, dog and cat sitting for a cousin with my aunt. My cousin's husband has an art studio in the pool house (thanks for the use, cousin!...for the POOL and the ART STUDIO!) so I set up my canvas on the easel with my paints.

When I asked Peter for permission to use his photo of the old stairs down to the pier, I believe he said they are no longer there. Someone must have cleaned that lot up but the black and white photograph of them was definitely not only striking, but a long memory of life around the lake, from years ago, having a boat and skiing around the lake and more recently boat rides with the Beckett's and family.

Painting in Progress Images…

Watch the painting as it progresses!

It's coming along, more to go though! Stay tuned for updates.

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 - Now I think I can call this one done. Tweaked it and tweaked again.

July 27, 2022 2:30 PM and I continued to tweak

Not sure if I like the previous one better or not, as you can see, the water changed. One of those, "to tweak or not to tweak, that is the question". Ugh. 

July 31, 2022 7:33 PM What can I say?

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