Flemings Landing Delaware
by Lianne Schneider
Title
Flemings Landing Delaware
Artist
Lianne Schneider
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art
Description
Route 9 is the essence of Delaware. For 50 miles between the Colonial Court House in the City of New Castle, and the John Dickinson Plantation, Delaware's two-lane Route 9 runs in a north to south (or south to north) direction in a course that parallels the western shore of Delaware River and Bay, winding past a succession of uniquely Delaware landscapes: heavy industrial sites, forests, tidal and non-tidal marshland, areas of significant natural resources and wildlife habitat, historic towns and quaint villages, and working farms with cultivated fields of grain, corn and soybeans.
Designated by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) as the Coastal Heritage Greenway, Route 9 is rich with the wildlife, wetlands and ecosystems of the Delaware River and Bay estuary and has a landscape filled with the record of Delaware history in the form of buildings and towns. Many important examples of Delaware's cultural and natural history, as well as its present day agricultural, industrial, and environmental landscape, are located along Route 9.
Driving along Route 9 can be an experience in serenity. The road is aligned with the western edge of Delaware's extensive marshland coast, and at many points a variety of marsh vegetation is bridged by the road. Generally, the road is lightly traveled, and signs for slow- moving farm vehicles abound. The region surrounding Route 9 contains the largest area of preserved coastal marshland on the East Coast of the United States, and in several areas the traveler along Route 9 can see a marshland landscape that would have been visible to a colonist at the time of the American Revolution.
Along the Delaware Coastal byway the traveler often finds himself in the midst of scenes of broad agricultural fields, much of it preserved farmland, interspersed with marshland, small creeks and guts leading down to the Delaware Bay. Route 9 is intersected by a series of small roads, named for the landings they accessed, that end at the Delaware River. The traveler also has views of the Delaware River in the distance appearing beyond the short grass marshes that persist in this area. The fishing village and landing of Flemings Landing is one of those points which from the earliest settlements carried people and produce to the bay along the 7 mile Smyrna River that is completely navigable from beginning to end. The river forms the boundary between New Castle and Kent Counties.
Digitally hand-painted from an image in the public domain from National Scenic Byways. Texture applied over painting.
Thank you so much to these fine groups for featuring this image:
ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS - JOETTA
ALL FINE ART AMERICA ARTWORK - NADINE AND BOB
EXCELLENT SELF-TAUGHT ARTISTS - JOE
SELECTED DIGITAL ART - TAIKAN
DIGITAL REALISM - ANNE
COMPOSITE OR MIXED MEDIA - SHIRLEY
VISUAL VOICE - ANNIE
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
ARTISTS BEST FIVE ARTWORKS - TINA
FAA FEATURED IMAGES - ROBERT
BOAT ART - HILDE
ARTIST NEWS - NADINE AND BOB
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
THE NATURE ARTWORKS - TAIKAN
PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXTURES MAKE FINE ART - DARREN
ALL STARZ - NADINE AND BOB
Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or painting resulting from my changes. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.
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February 18th, 2014
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Comments (61)
Debbie Portwood
Wonderful scene! Your treatment really done a fantastic job with the overpainting! Great work! f/love!! :D
Judy Via-Wolff
Another beutiful historical work. Amazing and so informative, ( is there a book in your future) ? L F
Latha Gokuldas Panicker
The magnificent atmosphere, lighting and your magical touch make it a real classic,dear Lianne !!!! (F/L)
Karol Livote
Such beautiful work, Lianne I know how you love the coast & it shows!! Well done...f&l twt
Lianne Schneider
Huge and heartfelt thanks to each of you who have come by to leave a lovely comment on this image. I do treasure each one - and I hope that I've already visited your pages to thank you in person in that way.
Gloria Ssali
stunning art Lianne wonderful mood and feel and so much to see and admire a truly beautiful piece and a fave fl
Lianne Schneider
Taikan, Darren, and Nadine and Bob - thank you so very much for featuring this work in your wonderful groups...THE NATURE ARTWORKS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXTURES MAKE FINE ART, and ALL STARZ. I'm tremendously honored and very happy about this.
Skip Willits
I know Rt. 9 well and suspect that I also know that exact spot...well done Lianne and thanks for the memories.
Lianne Schneider replied:
I lived in Delaware for a few years myself Skip and my brother lived there for many years so this is familiar territory to me too. Thank you so much.