LIVERMORE FALLS – Heidi Wilde spends hours in her art studio painting details on the panes of recycled antique windows.

If she had it her way, she would spend most of her time in this cozy environment.

It’s in this second-floor room at her house, with its wooden floor planks and older-style windows, that her creativity flows.

“I close the door and turn on the music,” Wilde, 53, said.

The self-taught artist chooses the mood music depending on what she’s feeling at the moment.

“Some days I feel the need to relax and I listen to classic. If I need to be jazzed up, I choose bluegrass or folk pop,” she said.

Long before she begins the reverse painting on glass with an acrylic-type paint and she signs HWilde to the finished artwork, she or her companion, Phil Poirier, or both, have shot digital photos along their journeys or special treks to capture just the right image.

The windows she uses as her framed-canvases come from everywhere, including the side of the road.

“I paint from photos and manipulate them on the computer to make them fit,” she said. She bolds the colors in the images because when painting on glass, colors darken.

Her interest in art began as a child growing up in South Portland.

She has primed her natural talent with her trial and error experiences.

She started doing reverse painting on the window panes in the spring of 2006, four years after she started her business Wilde Accents. Much of her work can be scene on her Web site www.wildeaccents.com.

“I use a technique that has been around for a long time and manipulate it to suit modern technology,” she said.

The art form consists of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image, Wilde said. One of the challenges is that unlike conventional painting on opaque supports, you must paint the highlights first, she said.

Many of her works highlight animals and landscape scenes. She has ventured into folk art as well.

“It has to be interesting; whatever kind of strikes me,” she said. “I go back and forth. I’ll do an animal painting because I love animals and then a scene. People really like the animals.”

She recently finished a piece of a scene from Saco. It’s on a pane that came from a window of a home where the person commissioning the work grew up.

She also has painted churches in Bethel on a large pane in an arch-style frame. Cats, cows, pigs, geese are among her subjects. A painting of lambs hangs in her living room.

She sells her artwork at shows and found it sells much better at bigger shows such as in Bethel and Sugarloaf. Prices range from $500 to $2,000.

Like some, it’s a struggle to make ends meet so she has taken a job outside the home two days a week for the first time in two years.

In between paintings on Wednesday, her easel in her studio stood empty with some draft work on paper nearby.

“I love to be in here,” Wilde said. “I just want to be here. I love what I do. You know when something feels right, and this feels like something I should be doing.”