Light Pixie Studio – Sharyn Richardson https://lightpixiestudio.com Preserve your memories | fine art portraits that tell a story | photographs and paintings by Sharyn Richardson | Light Pixie Studio | What do you want to remember? | worldwide Mon, 09 Dec 2019 03:03:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 Pay close attention! https://lightpixiestudio.com/pay-close-attention/ Tue, 28 May 2019 18:17:45 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=4388 Cats and dogs are different creatures.

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]]> A Cloud to Hide Us, the Moon Beside Us https://lightpixiestudio.com/clouds-moon/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:00:56 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=4296 Composite painting The Super Blood Moon photo over LA posted in February was less for the landscape than as a resource for one of my composite paintings. Here it makes an appearance in an imaginary summer sky. An airplane needs someplace to be heading and the left wingtip needs a design anchor. This type of […]

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]]> The Beekeepers https://lightpixiestudio.com/beekeepers/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:08:26 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=4232 In warm, humid weather bees protect the hive by massing on the outside and fanning their wings to cool it.

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]]> Total Lunar Eclipse of a Rare Moon https://lightpixiestudio.com/lunar-eclipse/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 13:29:48 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=4191 How to shoot the super blue blood wolf moon as accomplished in Los Angeles on January 20th, 2019.

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]]> Easter Woodcock Welcomes Spring! https://lightpixiestudio.com/easter-woodcock-welcomes-spring/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 03:08:38 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3902 Winter is persistent! March 2018 came and went as a lion. We woke to frost goblins and tonight there will be more snow. But this day announced itself with sunshine that soon after revealed a secret. Life-listing birder Thirty years ago I was a novice birder with a growing list. At that time I lived […]

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]]> Remembering Paul Johns: Touching Greatness https://lightpixiestudio.com/paul-johns-touching-greatness/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 19:58:37 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3873 In Memoriam I am an average pilot who feels very lucky to have known Paul Johns who died last week at age one hundred and four. I’ve been shooting his birthday portraits for the past few years and below you can see the last of them from his final birthday celebration in October of 2017. Touching […]

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]]> Happy New Year – On the Road https://lightpixiestudio.com/happy-new-year/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:56:27 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3819 This is my newest painting, On the Road, for a grandfather who fondly recalls when his granddaughter was barely taller than his favorite dog. The big, lovable Lab cast himself as protector for the small girl as they walked down a country road. The dog is patient and she goes confidently by his side because […]

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]]> The Incident, a still life – What’s real, what’s not https://lightpixiestudio.com/still-life-the-incident/ Sat, 21 Jan 2017 18:26:20 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3777 Still life – a collection Classic still life involves an artful arrangement of inanimate objects, a collection of something beautiful or rare or peculiar. Odd numbers are visually appealing perhaps because the eye is forced to move around a scene. The sweet spot is three so here’s a collection of three crystal objects. The whimsical figures […]

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]]> Merry Christmas to all! https://lightpixiestudio.com/christmas_2016/ Sat, 24 Dec 2016 21:23:30 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3767 Paul often reads to me while I cook. With holiday preparations underway for Christmas 2016 Eve supper there was ample time for this week’s headline story in our small town newspaper of childhood Christmas traditions recalled. That led inevitably to stories from our own childhoods. Sugar Plums first and then the Christmas tree When we […]

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]]> Halloween Spooktacular at the Carson Mansion https://lightpixiestudio.com/halloween/ Sun, 30 Oct 2016 19:24:30 +0000 https://lightpixiestudio.com/?p=3739 Carson Mansion in Eureka, California Three stories, eighteen rooms, wide porches, grand pillars, stained glass, elaborate carvings, exotic woods, turrets, towers and lacy carving. William Carson said about his home, ” . . . If I build it poorly, they would say that I was a damned miser; if I build it expensively, they will […]

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