Watercolor painting of a woman kneading dough in a rustic bakery, with an oven glowing in the background.

A loose, expressive watercolor painting in the luminous, impressionistic style of Jean Haines. The scene shows Amelia, a tall, wiry woman with partially gray brown hair, working in her rustic bakery. She stands slightly left of center, leaning forward over a counter as she kneads dough, her figure suggested through flowing washes of gray-blue, sienna, and sepia with soft, dissolving edges. Her head tilts downward in quiet concentration, face softly glowing in the warm oven light. The oven radiates a halo of cadmium orange, alizarin crimson, and honeyed yellows, blending outward into the atmosphere. The counter stretches horizontally in muted brown washes, lightly textured with flour and indistinct tools. Bread loaves and dough emerge as rounded shapes of ochre, sienna, and umber, abstract but recognizable, edges softened by fluid watercolor. The air is hazy with flour dust and steam, captured through pale lavender, Naples yellow, and soft gray washes merging into untouched white paper. Negative space breathes around her, allowing parts of the scene to dissolve into atmosphere. Ethereal, glowing, atmospheric, fluid, poetic, expressive watercolor painting. See more