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An Artist by Nature

This is an image journal of artistic places I have traveled to, places I have dwelt in for awhile and places I will always come back to. All my work is an expression of the joy and the beauty I see all around me. These expressions manifest in many forms, painting, drawing, photography, writing, fiber arts, landscaping & many other forms of art & design, especially in wood.
While my main inspiration has always been the natural world, it also wanders into the world childhood wonder and the sense of awe that I found then and still find now.
If you are interested in purchases or commissions, please contact me at ;
lucindamacy.co@gmail.com
Thank you and enjoy your visit !
All images are property of Lucinda Claire Macy and may not be copied by any means, lifted from the page or used in any way without my permission. thank you ~

finished Comissioned project of aerial view of Fall River Valley and requested scenery


This project took over a year and includes native fish, many birds and other 
requested details. The Finished size was 4ft wide and 6 ft tall.
Acrylic paint on wood.

Here is the map on the clients wall~

  






 

Crow Quill pen drawing of my Lady Slipper orchid.

 I drew my Lady Slipper orchid this Autumn with a crow quill pen~ And have
colored it with Prisma pencils. This portrait was inspired by the its early, extra large bloom and I fully desired to pay homage to it's beauty!






Painting "Young Dogwood Blossoms"

Dogwood blossom update!
Getting back to the studio to work on this~ looking forward to Winter for lots of indoor painting time


On the right is my photo I took last early Spring of a bouquet of young dogwood blossoms.  On the left is my acrylic under painting and now I am starting to paint over it with oils

 In the studio

Revisiting Cliff Lake Water Lily !

Adding a little Extra to Cliff Lake Water Lily

I did the original painting some time ago and was happy with the water lily, but was always feeling I wanted to add something more but was unsure what. I decided to enter the painting into a gallery show and revisited my thoughts about "finishing it" with another detail. It finally came to me that what it needed was a toad under water!  I am very fond of toads and have a lot of pictures, so it was not hard for me find one. So now my garden toad, Stella, is forever recorded in history:-).  Stella is a native toad and the same kind that are in the local lakes.





Cormorant painting project

 Cormorant Painting

Inspired by a photo taken by Jan Arendtz at Elkhorn Slough(near Moss Landing)
He lives in the Bay area and had his work on Flickr.

Oil on Canvas
4' x 3"




 I am Finishing head details on right cormorant



details on left cormorant






  while doing big projects like the Cormorants,  I like to have a little something     to work on the side for a change...like the dog!




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and may not be used without permission . 2019




Snowy Owl

Finished Snowy Owl painting
Oil on canvas 18" x 20"







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permission . 2019

Homage to Abretch Durer, 16th century artist


"Homage to Albretch Durer's Cowslip" 15o4

My version is oil on canvas, 14" x 14"






Dining table work space












Local holiday show, selling prints of this painting




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 and may not be used without permission. 2019







Painting Lindsay's Oriental Lily

"Lindsays Lily Shadow"
oil on canvas 36" x 28"

A painting inspired by a beautiful photo by Lindsay Budner
 





Here I am working on the stems. I am close to being finished. I love the larger size and would like to paint even bigger.






Painting gets started, acrylic undercoat.























Cliff Lake Water Lily painting

Wild Water Lily Cliff Lakes
Oil on Canvas

20" x 20"



I am working in the kitchen area now where the wood stove is for warmth
I am starting to put a second layer of paint on the plant, that is oils.


 This is my second painting session.


Brushes










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and may not be used without permission . 2019





Spanky on the Wicker Chair

This painting is from a photo I took of my dog in the living room.
Noah in the background~

Oil on Canvas 
20" x 24"




The early stage of the painting































In 2015 I began Oil Painting, something I always wanted to do.

This is a fox painting inspired by Bruno Liljifors, who painted in the early 1900's
This is a small piece which depicts native American stones I found in the river
and a landscape of the river area

Chert Handtools and Atlatl foreshaft











First painting





Nightly water color post cards

It has become a project of mine to do a nightly post card sized water color. I have tried this before and it is hard to continue until it becomes a real habit....so trying again. This is my way of fitting in artwork when there never seems time do so as I run my regular business with my Etsy shop. I will just add these as I go along.

This is my pet garden toad Stella, who lived in a lovely large pond I had made in the yard

This is a Spanish Luna Moth. I was not so pleased with the background and will no doubt try this again. The luna moths are all exquisitely beautiful  


             

This is a little broccoli Sprite I made, thinking in terms of doing a set of vegetable sprites


COMMISSIONED PORTRAIT

This recently finished piece is acrylic on canvas, done at the request of a client. It is 20" x 24"