As The Crow Flies

As The Crow Flies

Original Watercolor Painting by Nick Santoleri

"As The Crow Flies" Watercolor Painting 2015 in Progress 15
“As The Crow Flies” Watercolor Painting 2015

Slide show (below) of the steps in creating this painting.
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  • As The Crow Flies by N. Santoleri 2013 pencil
    "As The Crow Flies" by N. Santoleri 2013 pencil

A pencil drawing was completed in 2013 entitled “As the Crow Flies”. It was drawn to memorialize the death of Andrew Wyeth, (1917- 2009). This image of Andrew Wyeth’s home in Chads Ford, Pennsylvania. They say he died in his sleep, so i tried to depict the night that he died. I believe it to be one of my best landscape pencil drawings to date. Through the past couple of years, as I have looked at it, the need to take it further and create a watercolor painting of the image slowly erupted inside of me. I started this painting on January 16th, the anniversary of Wyeth’s death and completed it in 6 weeks.

About the (above) slide show.

  1. A picture of the drawing completed in 2013.
  2. Starting to draw the painting in pencil on watercolor paper.
  3. A close up of the the process (under drawing).
  4. Starting to put paint on paper by jumping right into the night sky, (the part that I felt would make or break the painting).
  5. -15. Various stages to completion.
About the finished painting.
  • The image size of this painting is 19″ x 27″
  • Framed and matted by the artist with acid free matting
  • Overall framed dimensions, including mat & frame is 31.5″ x 39″
  • This watercolor painting comes with a letter of authenticity from our studio.

The price for this one-of-a-kind original painting is available $7,000.  Gone

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Nicholas Santoleri ~ Artist      Pine Ridge Productions, Inc.
1515 West Chester Pike Unit A-6, West Chester, PA 19382
In Historic Chester County, Pennsylvania