Author Archives: Johanna Semonik

The last of 2015: “Lazy Cove”

12 x 12 original oil pastel will be available in 2016 through Kada Gallery. Giclee prints (cropped as shown, here) are available as of January 2016.

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Little Red

A visit to a red schoolhouse in upstate New York was the inspiration to illustrate the story that my sister had written on a field trip with her Cato-Meridian 2nd grade class.” This historic schoolhouse site was worth documenting both in story and illustration. The interior plates are rendered in black and white to replicate […]

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“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Mothers Beach, Kennebunk

I got up early to walk the beach and feel the morning air and the rush of the waves at sunrise. Fishermen were already there for the early “catch”. The house across from where we were staying was on a low cliff facing the beach.  I sketched it with acrylic paint pens and later turned the drawing into […]

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