Meet Artist Lucinda Johnson

 

Lucinda Johnson                        https://lucindajohnson.com

Lucinda is an award-winning, California-native artist (born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area). Art has always been at the center of Lucinda’s life. “As a child I enjoyed drawing from nature to become familiar with graceful lines, form and space. I am also very conscious of composition, shapes, lighting, and values from my photography education” she says. Through self-taught studies and workshops with professional artists in a wide array of mediums, art has always been a way for me to share California’s unique personality and vistas. Lucinda began experimenting with oils in 2020 and shared “I approach an oil painting with a similar thought process to painting with soft pastels.” When painting a landscape on canvas she first primes the canvas with warm undertones. Additional layers are next added dark-to-light. Using a palette knife she first mixes the correct values on the palette, and then proceeds to paint/blend colors on the canvas (wet-on-wet) or layer/glaze with brushes.

O-145 light_conversation  by Lucinda Johnson oil 4x8 $350

 “The inspiration for this painting was a dramatic, late afternoon skyscape with far-spreading light rays softly illuminating the vernal pools of the San Joaquin valley.  It was not yet sunset, yet soft pinks, oranges and purples were visible on the dark clouds. I was awestruck.”

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O-144 Clear Day at Shasta by Lucinda Johnson oil 4x8 $350.

The inspiration for this painting was a wintery Mt. Shasta vista from a country roadside west of highway 5. The trees were bare, the snow had melted from the pine branches, the air was brisk, and many shades of blue were visible in the frozen creek and distant mountain shadows where the sky colors were reflected.”