Strolling Down Old Rapidan Road (2010) Painting by Lee J. Nixon
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Original Artwork
Painting,
Oil
- Dimensions Height 16in, Width 20in
- Categories Paintings under $1,000 Figurative
Memory Lane:
...as a teenager working for a neighbor (sheep farmer) who lived here
...holding sheep as the wool was sheared
...taking down an old railed fence
...removing rocks from the pasture
...cleaning and removing grass and debris from a clogged stream
riding on the back of the neighbor's tractor returning home
...jogging down memory lane
Painting techniques:
...usage of tissue paper for texture
...impasto
...complementary colors for simultaneous contrasts
...high contrasting lights and darks
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An Original Acrylic Landscape Painting About Strolling Down Old Rapidan Road
Lee Nixon is an artist who teaches. If you attended Orange County High School,
chances are good that Lee Nixon was your art teacher. A native of Orange County,
Lee J. Nixon received his Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from Virginia State University in 1975. He taught at Daniel Morgan Middle School in Winchester, Virginia for five years. While there, he served on a committee for the annual Fine Arts Festival that involved all of the area schools. In 1980, Lee returned to Orange, to teach at Orange County High School where he initiated an annual Arts and Science Festival, which continued until recently. His own work, which includes painting and creating textural surfaces, has been exhibited numerous galleries including the Science Museum of Virginia, Upstairs Gallery, and the Orange Arts Center. The Artist: Nixon works primarily in acrylics for their versatility and compatibility with other media. His Impressionist paintings reflect a need, care, and reverence for a serene earth, and the desire to share it with the viewer through color, pattern, and texture. The finished work is the culmination of several underpaintings, overpaintings, numerous glazes and other refinements until the work is completed. .
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1951
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary American Artists
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