Breakwater on the Great Sacandaga Baseball T-Shirt

Definitely a composite of the wonders of our Adirondacks...and especially of the Great Sacandaga Lake. This is the third version of a scene I have in my head but of course every time I paint it comes out differently. The first had a distinctly oriental calligraphic feel, the second more abstract. In this one I eliminated the bridge and played with the mountains more. The endless saga of landscapes!

Betty Pieper received her first set of oils at the age of ten and has been painting ever since. Her work has been selected by prominent jurors for prestigious regional and national exhibitions and is owned by people throughout the country. Before the age of five, Betty had lived on Dean Street in Brooklyn, on Forsythe Street in Manhattan, on an estate in Westchester county, and with her grandparents in rural New York. She watched her father build their house nearby only to sell it and announce a move to California. In San Bernardino she lived in a trailer park and later in a rural farmhouse without running water, then in an historic mansion with an Indian cellar. How did this itinerant childhood influence her art? "I learned...