Priscilla Levesque- Priscilla grew up in Ashburnham MA and received her BFA at UMass Amherst. While living onCape Cod for many years, she worked outdoors on location painting old houses, fields, beaches, boatyards and cranberry bogs.
In 2014 she and her husband, Steven Jacobs, moved to Lowell where she changed her subject matter and painting methods.Priscilla now has a studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, where she paints from photos ofher subjects, rather than on location. She now paints scenes such as brick mill buildings, old Victorian houses, quaint convenience stores, and the canals which flow through the city.
The medium Priscilla uses is casein, which is an opaque water-base paint similar to gouache. Her tech-nique is pointillism, the art of painting with tiny dots, developed in the late 19th century by the French painter Georges Seurat. He discovered that by placing tiny dots of various colors close together onthe painting, he could create “optical mixtures”. When seen from a distance, the colors blend to-gether in the viewers’ eyes. Priscilla has enjoyed the pointillist technique for several years now be-cause it is important in art history, but seldom used by contemporary artists
In 2014 she and her husband, Steven Jacobs, moved to Lowell where she changed her subject matter and painting methods.Priscilla now has a studio at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, where she paints from photos ofher subjects, rather than on location. She now paints scenes such as brick mill buildings, old Victorian houses, quaint convenience stores, and the canals which flow through the city.
The medium Priscilla uses is casein, which is an opaque water-base paint similar to gouache. Her tech-nique is pointillism, the art of painting with tiny dots, developed in the late 19th century by the French painter Georges Seurat. He discovered that by placing tiny dots of various colors close together onthe painting, he could create “optical mixtures”. When seen from a distance, the colors blend to-gether in the viewers’ eyes. Priscilla has enjoyed the pointillist technique for several years now be-cause it is important in art history, but seldom used by contemporary artists
Available Works- click images for full view
"Top Of The Hill"
$450.00
7" x 9.25" original casein painting on black pastel paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in black frame. Depicts a street scene in Lowell, MA.
Framed size 17"x 19"
"Riverbank"
$500.00
11.5" x 7.5" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in rustic, grey wood frame. Depicts the Merrimack River in Massachusetts near Rhinn Beach, Lowell.
Framed size 20"x 17"
Framed size 20"x 17"
"Still Life w/Yellow-Green Glass"
$275.00
6" x 7.5" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in navy blue wooden frame.
Framed size 16"x 17.5"
"Almost 5pm"
$450.00
9" x 6.5" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in grey wood frame. Depicts late afternoon in Lowell, MA.
Framed size 18"x 16"
"Corner of Market and Shattuck"
$500.00
11" x 7.5" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in rustic, black wood frame. Depicts an intersection in Lowell, MA.
Framed size 21.5"x 18"
"Mill Cityscape"
$425.00
9" x 6" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in rustic, black wood frame. Depicts a cityscape in Lowell, MA at Pawtucket Canal below Central St.
Framed size 19"x 15"
"Twilight on Jackson St"
$425.00
8" x 6" original casein painting on paper by Priscilla Levesque, matted and preserved under glass in rustic, black wood frame. Depicts a street scene in Lowell, MA.
Framed size 17.5"x 16"