Portland Head Lighthouse

Title

Portland Head Lighthouse

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

Hand painted digital interpretation and composite of a National Park Service image and another of a tall ship. Done on a Wacom tablet in a realistic style, each brushstroke is painted individually.

Portland Head Lighthouse, in Portland, Maine, was the very first lighthouse to be commissioned by the US government. Commissioned in 1789, completed in 1790 and first lit by 16 whale oil lamps in early 1791, the light is one of the most famous, most painted lighthouses in the country. It has been in continuous use since the first lighting and is still run by the US Coast Guard. The light was extinguished between 1942 and 1945 to avoid guiding German submarines patrolling the Maine shoreline.

In spite of the carefully maintained light, there was one famous wreck that struck the ledge at Portland Head on Christmas Eve 1886. The Annie C. McGuire was wrecked in spite of the fact that the crew all claimed they could see the light well before striking the head. Thanks to the quick action of the keeper, Joshua Strout, his son Joseph, and his wife, Mary, all aboard were saved. Although there was some suspicion that the captain of the McGuire had wrecked the ship purposely as the McGuire was in financial trouble, the case was not proven. The Strout family served as keepers from 1869 to 1928, one year shy of six decades.

Thank you to the following groups for featuring this image:
LIGHTHOUSES IN DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHS - ANNE
DIGITAL REALISM - ANNE
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXTURES MAKE FINE ART - DARREN
3 A DAY WAITING ROOM ART - PRISCILLA
ART BY GOD - 1 A DAY - KAREN
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
PLEASING THE EYE - JEFF
PHOTOGRAPHY AND ARTWORK BEAUTY THE USA - RACHEL
SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS YOUR OWN - TRACY
ALL THINGS ON THE ATLANTIC COAST - BRUCE
PLACES YOU VISITED 3 PER DAY - EVA
AAA IMAGES - CHUCK
SUN CLOUDS AND WATER - SHANNON
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
DAILY DOSE OF WISDOM - ETI
DIGITAL VEIL - BARBARA
ARTIST NEWS - NADINE AND BOB
SEASIDE - CATALINA
TODAY'S BEST ART - CHAD
500 VIEWS 1 A DAY - MARIOLA
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM

I am a western New York based artist with a passion for the sea and a deep love for the natural world around me. Having somewhat restricted mobility, my paintings are sometimes based on images in the public domain or on elements from classic art work. Thank you for your interest in my artwork. If you would like to see more, my full portfolio can be found at http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com If you enjoy my art works, please feel free to share this link with friends or share on your social networks by pushing the Pinterest, FB, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you!

You can purchase quality traditional style fine art prints of digital paintings, giclee canvas prints, acrylic and metallic prints by Lianne Schneider. Beautiful and stylish decor for any wall in your home, office or lobby. Detailed landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flowers and more...all with the look and feel of classic oil paintings. The FAA-Watermark will NOT appear on any final product!

This is a hand-painted digital oil derivative work based primarily on an image/photograph in the public domain used as a reference. It is not a "faithful" reproduction, nor does it attempt to be. Painted on a Wacom tablet using a variety of painting programs and filters. While my adaptations and interpretations are copyright protected, the underlying artwork remains in the public domain available to other artists to reproduce or interpret.

Please contact the artist, Lianne Schneider, directly if you purchase this image as a giclee print on canvas, framed or unframed. A signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity is available for each canvas indicating title of the work, my name, date of creation, a thumbnail of the painting, the origin of original work if the painting is a derivative, the number of your print in the limited printing and a guarantee that the work will no longer be available to the public in a canvas format once 25 canvas prints are sold.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
This is a rights managed image available for licensing at http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/lianne-schneider.html

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or the digital painting resulting from my own style and interpretation. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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