Living on Maryland’s Eastern Shore for 44 years has greatly inspired Barbara’s painting.  Everywhere around one is the beauty of the water, its colors and reflections, the marshes, the winter skies, the water birds and turtles, the sunflowers, daffodils and tulips.  Watercolor is a medium that brings the softness, the mood, and the colors of the area to the viewer like no other.  Painting water scenes with the pigments flowing and moving through the water on wet paper is a truly fun way to paint.  Hopefully looking at “The Shore and More” will inspire one to observe more as they drive and boat on the Shore.

Barbara has worked in all two-dimensional mediums but works primarily in watercolor now.  She is a triad painter, meaning each painting is created with three pigments: one red, one blue and one yellow.

Barbara’s favorite triads are the primary triad (Winsor Red, Winsor Blue (Red Shade), and Winsor Yellow), the delicate triad (Permanent Rose, Indathrene Blue, and Winsor Lemon) and the autumn triad (Brown Madder, Indigo, and Quinacridone Gold).  All of the colors in the painting are mixed from the three pigments.  Historic oil painters painted in this manner.  With oil as a medium, one adds white as well.  It gives a cohesiveness to the work.  It is an exciting and fun way to paint and very few artists paint that way today.

An award-winning artist, Barbara grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.  She has been a resident of Talbot County since 1982.  After graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a BFA in graphics and painting, she did commercial studio design work for The J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, Michigan.  She also did display design work for John Wanamaker’s downtown Philadelphia store.  After moving to the Eastern Shore, she became active in the art community as a member and officer of Working Artists’ Forum where she is a past president and Treasurer.  She is a signature member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society.  Barbara is a partner of The Artists’ Gallery in Chestertown, Maryland and teaches intermediate watercolor at Dorchester Center for the Arts.

www.barbarazuehlke.com.