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The eclectic artwork of Chelsea White

06/30/2025

“Yellow Apartment By Forbes Library”, newest plein air. I feel like once I started to pry back into making art again, the flood gates opened! When I was here, I was greeted by a big cat with a squeaky tiny voice on the screened-in porch on the left side of the picture

06/17/2025

“Sandwich Boards on Old South Street”.
Somehow it’s been almost a year since my last plein air, but it’s been an action-packed year, what with kicking cancer among other things. I’m trying really hard to get better at the game of painting dappled light, which is one of my favorite effects but … god, it’s tough to get right!
This was done here in Northampton, and while any plein air session is bound to garner people’s attention, there are always many more interactions with unusual folks while in downtown “Hamp”

06/21/2024

Earlier this week I was in Boston for a medical appointment, and while I was there I brought with me my art supplies and started wandering the streets of Beacon Hill— which is just dripping with beauty at every corner. I could literally get multiple great paintings standing in the same spot and just looking in different directions; it almost feels like cheating.
This is at the intersection of Garden St and Myrtle St. I call it “Sunlit Corridor”. Acryla-gouache on hot press paper, 6” x 6”

05/24/2024

My second plein air of Northampton! (So far i’m 2/2 on bridge paintings..)
I’m pretty literal with my titles nowadays, so I think I’ll call this one “Chain Link Bridge Over Main Street”. Acryla-gouache on paper, 6” x 6”. I just love how the light was pouring around those shadows. What do you think?

05/02/2024

Last weekend I snuck over to my alma mater Gordon College and started a plein air I’d wanted to do for ages of the admissions building, Frost Hall. I had this vision in my head in advance of focusing on the stunning, towering pine trees that loom above it and keeping them a vibrant blue to emphasize a sense of serenity. (I wish I could do a similar plein air of my favorite old dorm, Drew Hall, but it’s gone 😢). What do you think?
Acryla-gouache on paper, about 5” x 5”, took about 5.5 hours.
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04/21/2024

As soon as the planets align to allow me the space, time, and energy to paint in plein air again, I feel really satiated and complete in a way that’s hard to explain (without sounding pretentious). Every artist has “their thing(s)”, and it’s so relieving to say that I’ve definitely found mine. These are from last weekend at the mysterious Montague Bookmill, from a couple different angles. I’ve got to keep coming back, at least as long as i’m welcome there with my setup etc.
It’s hard to come up with formal titles for these things, but the first one is called “An Uncooperative Day”.

06/04/2023

I’ve had a little time lately to make art but didn’t feel like doing anything. So I made myself illustrate a strange and amusing dream, cuz that’s my jam.

05/28/2023

I regret that this page is now semi-dormant; hopefully sometime in the future I can get it revitalized the way I had it going last fall. In the meantime, have a plein-air pen drawing of a tight cluster of repurposed old mill buildings in the town center of Easthampton, Mass from this warm afternoon.

12/11/2022

Next installments!! I was really proud of this first pun. But it did mean slightly breaking format as “Sherlock” is a show not a movie— but, eh, details. And then there’s “Aladdin” and “Titanic. If you know someone who needs a hilarious, memorable, customized save the date or invitation, you be sure to let me know!

12/09/2022

Next in this series: parodying one of my absolute personal faves, “The Road to El Dorado”, plus “Princess Bride” and “Once”. What’s your favorite of these whacky watercolor save-the-dates? I loved this first one so much but we ended up being unable to use it, because I put it as “the Road to Old Sturbridge” which was our original venue (Old Sturbridge Village) which sadly because of Covid, did not work out. So, my catharsis is sharing it now!! Painted the horse to look like the big draft horses they have at OSV, coming down one of the landmark old recreation village’s “main streets”.

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