Framed painting by Bobbie Bush depicting ocean landscape with dramatic clouds and distant island.

Elwell Island: Painting of a Vacation Memory

 

Exploring a Favorite Place

The coast of Maine is among one of my favorite places, where I go to rest, relax and be inspired. I often capture photographs just using my phone.


Personal Expression

With my iPhone as my essential travel camera, I gather visual memories of the places I visit. These visual sketches become the inspirational reference images for each painting.

 

Peaceful coastal landscape photo with an island and scattered clouds reflected in still waters used as a reference for a landscape painting.

original camera roll photo

Paint palette showing various shades of blue oil paints being mixed on a grey surface.

mixing oils

Using a palette knife on a landscape, adding oils to the clouds in the sky over a dark coastline and blue waters.

working with a palette knife

Detail of the water pattern in a coastal Maine seascape by Bobbie Bush. .

detail of the painting

 

Video: Vacation Memory Transformed

 

Watch this video story of a vacation memory transformed into a painting.

Blending the Modern & Traditional

Each art piece is a blending of the modern and the traditional arts, starting with an image that is deconstructed and reimagined into a transformational work of art stroke by stroke.   

Coastal painting in progress on easel with art supplies, paints and brushes on a wooden table.

Do you have a special place to commemorate?

Perhaps there is special place in your life that evokes deeply meaningful memories that you would like elevate into a painting.

Only 5 commissions are accepted a month. Will yours be one of them?


➡️ Contact Bobbie to learn more

 

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Professional black and white portrait of artist Bobbie Bush against a dark background.

Bobbie Bush is a Massachusetts-based portrait artist creating custom portrait painting commissions to honor, celebrate and commemorate loved ones. Serving nationally. Since 1996.

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