A House Portrait from Scotch Plains, New Jersey

by Jennifer Skopp

A realtor commissioned Jennifer Skopp to create a Watercolor House Portrait to give to his client as a closing gift. The realtor’s client was selling their longtime Scotch Plains, New Jersey home.

This house is one floor and is very wide. The bottom half of the house has stones with varying browns and grays. There are also stones around the main entrance. The front door is dark brown. There are three brick, very wide steps that lead to the front entrance. The top half of the house is beige. The windows have white frames and there are white, horizontal moldings that continue across the tops and bottoms of windows. The pitched roof has reddish-brown shingles.

There are shrubs planted in soil that has a curved shape. Jennifer added pink flowers to brighten up the garden. A   driveway goes from the street to the front of the house and then makes a wide turn by the front door towards the left.

Jennifer decided not to contain the House Portrait in a rectangle, but to enclose the house in an irregular shape using curved lines. She drew the trees in the background using simplified shapes and painted them with different shades of green.