Luann Hume
Pastel and Watercolor classes are now being offered by Luann Hume
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Luann (Booth) Hume was born on April 12, 1939 in Leominster. From an early age Luann showed an interest in art. Around the age of ten, Luann’s mother enrolled her in classes at the Fitchburg Art Museum and continued to encourage her to develop her talent.
While attending Leominster High School, Claude Munson, Luann’s art teacher soon became her mentor and steered her on the road to an art career. Luann remembers spending hours in Mr. Munson’s art room as he taught her the basics. When she graduated from Leominster High School Mr. Munson gave her a four-year scholarship to a Boston art college. Unfortunately she was unable to take advantage of the opportunity, but Mr. Munson’s adage “keep trying until you get what you want” stayed with her to influence her future choices.
She joined the Leominster Art Association, attended lectures, borrowed “how to” books from the library, and educated herself about art techniques. She began painting with watercolors and found that her love of birch trees translated into a knack for painting them. In the future Luann would earn the name “Mrs. Birch Tree” for the intuitive way she rendered the trees in her paintings. Hume’s paintings include still lifes, flowers, and landscapes and seascapes using watercolors and pastels.
In 1992 she moved to Maine where she joined Maine Women in the Arts, the Art Guild of the Kennebunks, Pastel Painters of Maine, the York Art Association, and the Art Association of Sanford-Springvale. Each of these organizations allowed Luann to get together with other artists to share tips and learn new techniques.
In recent years Luann has taught tree painting at B. F. Brown Middle School in Fitchburg and has done single workshops and demonstrations at the National Plastics Museum and various other venues. Although largely self-taught, she has taken numerous awards in Maine and Leominster for her work through the years. One of her biggest thrills was when a husband and wife who purchased one of her paintings said they intended to hang between tow original Andrew Wyeth paintings. Their comment was, “We think Hume and Wyeth complement each other nicely.” Luann takes that as a great honor.
A traditional as well as a conceptual painter, Luann desires to be able to paint every day for the rest of her. That would be the realization of a dream come true.
