Justus's House by Heather Leigh Douglas

Mark Whittaker 07 Mar 2009

Thanks for your kind comments on my work, i have just been admiring your own lovely oil paintings.

Artist Reply: Thanks Mark. Love your labrador portraits ~

joanne nash 05 Aug 2008

I had to check this wasnt a photo it looks so real!

Artist Reply: Thanks Joanne ~

margaret mckeehan 31 Jul 2008

EXCELLENT WORK

Artist Reply: Thanks again Margaret ~

Tracey Wood 11 May 2008

Thank you for your kind comments, I love your work. This painting is wonderful, perfect house, perfect snow. (Your friend could sell his house on the strength of it.)

Artist Reply: Thanks Tracey. I'd be very sad if my friend ever sold his house, it has just as much charm inside as out!

Neil Higgs 26 Feb 2008

This and the rest of your work are excellent Heather.

Artist Reply: Thanks again Neil ~

Olga van Dijk 29 Jan 2008

Beautiful and peaceful....

Artist Reply: Thank you Olga. I'm glad the beauty and the peacefulness are apparent ~

julie Marks 29 Jan 2008

Your work is amazing. You capture the mood of aging architecture with grace and exceptional photorealism, a genre of art that suits you well. At first the barn window and Justus's House look like a photograph and with further viewing your exceptional talent as a painter is revealed in all its splendor. What a charming scence of a great house where it seems that time has stood still in this serene and peaceful ambience. I love how you evoke feeling from the viewer, a testament to your talent. This may look easier than it is to create a beautiful representational painting with your wonderful sense of color and composition.

Artist Reply: Again, Julie, thank you so much. I've spent some wonderful times in this home. It's a warm, inviting, place and when there was the possibility that my friend might sell it, I had to paint it for posterity! Fortunately he has not let go of it yet!

Betty Fletcher 28 Jan 2008

I thought this was a photograph. Wonderful painting! Betty

John Fish 27 Jan 2008

beautiful house and beautiful painting. love the red against all the black and white. and you captured those snowflakes perfectly without looking like a Christmas card. They just make a wonderful texture on the dark building.

Artist Reply: Thanks so much ~

Richard Hall 20 Jan 2008

Your work is excellent. It has photographic representation.

Artist Reply: Thanks Richard - I often paint from my own photographs and sometimes worry that it's too photographic looking ~

Jessica Courtley-Rose 19 Jan 2008

Wonderful art! What a peaceful scene!

Artist Reply: Thank you Jessica ~

Martha Cable 18 Jan 2008

Very nice.....Love your house ....looks real thats for sure.....

Artist Reply: Thank you Martha ~

Adrienne Childs 17 Jan 2008

i love the realness you bring to the painting, it gives it depth and emotion.. when i look at this i see my grandma's house... the trees covered in snow and the untouched on the ground. I believe if a painting can draw emotion, than the artist did an amazing job. so, long story short, your painting is amazing. =)

Artist Reply: Thank you so much Adrienne for your praise. It's wonderful to know that there are people out there, like you, who can relate to the mood and the feelings I'm trying to get across in the painting.