tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73551347212999417992012-02-16T05:24:08.017-08:00Welcome to Watercolor Backroads. Here you will find rural and realistic paintings to historical sites and American landscapes by artist Craig Harris. Please feel free to look around! Any questions can be directed to us through this email . Thank you and please enjoy!Craig Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11530996106772305923noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355134721299941799.post-36521561958512112312011-11-09T17:59:00.001-08:002011-11-09T18:02:13.971-08:00<style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-unhide:no; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; mso-default-props:yes; font-size:10.0pt; mso-ansi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-fareast-language:JA;} @page WordSection1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal">We had a lot of rain in Michigan this year. A full ten inches above our normal rainfall. As a result, everything has stayed very green well into November and all of the local crops appear to have been quite prolific…especially the corn and soybeans.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4GNZ0JHQxCc/TrswJ6ij41I/AAAAAAAAAgY/EPhNTUHWRRg/s1600/New%2BPainting.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 426px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4GNZ0JHQxCc/TrswJ6ij41I/AAAAAAAAAgY/EPhNTUHWRRg/s400/New%2BPainting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5673181102494442322" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am in the process of finishing this painting of some tall field corn and a farmhouse. The location is somewhere between Saline and Manchester on Burmeister Road. I left out the cloud of mosquitoes swarming around me while I was trying to take pictures!</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7355134721299941799-3652156195851211231?l=watercolorbackroads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Craig Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11530996106772305923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355134721299941799.post-17249277818556983402011-09-09T17:51:00.000-07:002011-09-09T18:44:41.549-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnetzl61eg/Tmq0lA1MaQI/AAAAAAAAAgE/idP9BdAGKwg/s1600/DAD2.JPG"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span></a><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">One of the projects I’ve been wanting to get started on for some time, is to chronicle, in landscapes, the places my ancestors lived as they migrated from east to west across North America.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnetzl61eg/Tmq0lA1MaQI/AAAAAAAAAgE/idP9BdAGKwg/s1600/DAD2.JPG"><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnetzl61eg/Tmq0lA1MaQI/AAAAAAAAAgE/idP9BdAGKwg/s1600/DAD2.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eLnetzl61eg/Tmq0lA1MaQI/AAAAAAAAAgE/idP9BdAGKwg/s400/DAD2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650527230460979458" border="0" /></a><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Last fall, we had a chance to visit some of the places my direct-line Harris ancestors lived in northeast Pennsylvania. The painting I am working on now is a scene from Mahoopany Creek In Pennsylvania. My fourth great-grandfather, Emer Harris, lived in this area and owned shares in a sawmill a few miles distant from this spot on the Little Mahoopany, to the northeast. Both of these streams feed the nearby Susquehanna River. This part of Pennsylvania is especially beautiful in the autumn, when the trees are in full color.</span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y8wpPO1XMlo/Tmq0kzHjPJI/AAAAAAAAAf8/qiFEzRDgdD8/s1600/DAD.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y8wpPO1XMlo/Tmq0kzHjPJI/AAAAAAAAAf8/qiFEzRDgdD8/s400/DAD.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650527226779876498" border="0" /></a> <style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:12pt;" >One of my next projects will be to paint something Brownhelm, Lorain County Ohio. Emer own some property near the Vermillion River and it was here that his sons Alma and Charles were born. Alma is my third great-grandfather.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7355134721299941799-1724927781855698340?l=watercolorbackroads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Craig Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11530996106772305923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7355134721299941799.post-81908926728842518852011-07-07T19:26:00.000-07:002011-08-21T20:31:25.597-07:00Welcome to the new Watercolor Backroads site! The site will be updated regularly with new paintings and news. Feel free to look around in the galleries. Please contact us with any questions. Enjoy!! <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7355134721299941799-8190892672884251885?l=watercolorbackroads.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Craig Harrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11530996106772305923noreply@blogger.com2