Aurora Borealis Canvas Print

Although I have never seen them in person, I have long been fascinated by photographs, drawings, and paintings of the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The colors call out for an Impressionist interpretation, and for that I returned to my first art love, dry pastels. I call this a drawing instead of a painting because the surface shows on one corner.

I often joke that I learned to draw and paint because it is easier and quicker for me than getting a good photograph. I do still make the attempt to use my camera more effectively from time to time, but I have more natural aptitude to using a pencil or paint. Often what few photographs I am satisfied with become reference for my artwork. I work with charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastels, watercolor, acrylic, and am learning oil painting. I tend towards more realistic, although I have dabbled in impressionism when the fancy strikes. I live at the dead end of a dirt road in rural Florida with my husband and a yardful of critters, while the local deer and wild turkeys eat my annual efforts at gardening.