Artist Studio
I will be conducting the Rockport, Maine workshop again this year. It is either a one week workshops or can be combined for a wonderful 2 week experience. Please contact me if you you have any questions. I will be teaching both watercolors and oils and doing many demonstrations and lessons in each. This has been a very popular arrangement and students like to see both mediums presented.
I have been having a wonderful time in Maine with some of the greatest students in the world, a creative and intrepid lot who brave the elements of early fall on the coast of Maine. We have had it all fabulously wonderful light filled days and windy and cold hunker down next to the wall adventures. But the paintings have been great and the group of oil and watercolor painters have really lifted this workshop to the best ever. We moved indoors to escape the elements and worked on still lifes, florals, and composition and design. Here is my demonstration using some wild flowers and pieces of tree branches, and wonderful new consignment shop pots.
This year’s wonderful Maine workshop will be the the weeks of September 22-26 and September 29-October 3. Sign up now to avoid not getting in. Contact me through the site and I will get information back to you.Clam Cove Rockland, Maine, a favorite painting site, come along and join the group.
I want to go over several paintings where I have used the white paper as the foil to make the darker values more interesting. Remember that in transparent watercolor the white paper is the most powerful part of the painting. Learning to design your paintings with this in mind will help you move in the direction of expressive, creative and focused paintings. Leaving random whites in areas of the painting without regard to their impact will diminish your chances of success.
On the edge of Prout’s Neck, Maine there is a boat landing called Ferry’s Beach and it has a wonderful quality of light and calm, I hope I captured both in my new oil painting, on canvas. This is my oil painting from yesterday, as I have said I am working on learning to paint oils, so I paint at least one per week, and I limit myself to one painting session for the bulk of the painting. I have found some familiarity beginning to happen with the process, and am finding the brushwork coming together. It is a process that is for sure, I do wish I would have started this journey when I was younger, it is a magnificent medium. Buy a few colors, a couple of bristle brushes and give it a go.
Sketch book with 4 value patterns from around the harbor at Camden, Maine. Although this is considered by some to be very old school, I think it is imperative to organize thoughts in a simple statement before proceeding with actual painting. This was the lesson for the morning.
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