Lakeside Cove artwork by Cecile Grace Charles This is a wonderful shoreline sunset image of a lake cove near my home on Lake Spokane, formerly called Long Lake. This is past the little town of Tumtum, WA.   The artwork is all about the relationship to the sky.. On canvas, I have captured that low light that happens near dusk that makes the trees glow. This is the view from a boat. The dashes in this artwork are a shorter version of the longer strokes in ot

Marefire artwork by Cecile Grace Charles I love horses. I love a lot of things but I love horses a bit more. Over the years I have had many moments with horses. Race horses, ponies, miniature horses, my friend owns twenty of them. There are so many different breeds. I am known in some horse circles for painting several breeds. I am very partial to Fjords, quarter horses, Frisian, are my favorites.   Marefire is about a horse I know. I get to visit he

When you look at this piece you might say, “That is so simple, I could do that”, well, yes you could. But it would not look like this because there is more to this than meets the eye, for it is intended for the mind. The job of the artist is to understand the meaning of color, the placement of color as well as inserting any object that finishes the story.   Firstly, that is not the sun or the moon, that is the circle of life in the background. It is however, the energy of the