Artist Studio
Well there is nothing you can do about the weather if you are teaching and outdoor workshop and you want to keep it outdoors. We have fallen into a foggy drizzle pattern but we are holding our own and staying in the elements. Yesterday my two demonstrations we are task in staying focused on changing
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Woke up to rainy overcast skies and so we headed to the Camden Yacht Club to paint. They are so nice to let us paint on their covered porch. Today’s lesson was another of my paint the scene quickly and try to get a feeling for the type of day. The group really did well
What a great day painting with a new collection of wonderful student. We painted at one of my favorite places the Belted Galway Farm in Camden, Maine. The lesson this morning was to focus on a very small light pattern and play it against a dark and dark middle value major piece. My demonstration is
Pemaquid
Seas violently pound
Over rocks thrust up by time
Soon pebbles remain
poem steve fleming copyright 2016
Today our painting adventure took to Merryspring Nature Center in Camden, Maine. This park is a really complicated place to paint since it is layers of foliage and flowers and there is just too many things to be intrigued by. My demonstration was a painting of a path leading in to the woods. I wanted
Today we went to Birch Point State Park and dodged short spells of light rain. It is a wonderful place with fabulous light, and it has become one of my favorite places to paint. The light is always ephemeral and cool and the colorful rocks have perfect weather worn shapes. I have painted this scene
We went to the Curtis Island Lighthouse today and had a much calmer day than yesterday. The temperature was mid 70’s and the skies were clear. I did 2 demonstrations on in opaque watercolor and 1 transparent. I am not sure I like either one but you can judge that for yourself. I try not
Yesterday was a beautiful blue sky day in Maine. We painting down at the Rockland City Marina and had a marvelous day. Of course that is if you enjoyed fighting the late afternoon 30 plus mph winds turning our painting spot into a wind tunnel. Some nimble movement was required to keep our paintings in
Today was another day of just getting myself ready for the workshop. I painted with a nice group of painters in Rockland, Maine at the city marina and I painted multiple pieces. The painting I am posting is a nice example of concentrating on the foundation of the painting, the contrast of lights and darks.
Yesterday I was painting in Camden, Maine at a very familiar location. I am getting ready for my annual Maine workshop. This years workshop I am teaching transparent watercolors, opaque watercolors and oils so it will be quite the interesting schedule but I am so up for it. I spent the day working on opaque watercolors and after realizing I had left most of the required colors at home in my studio, I finally got back in the game and started to paint. This is not a very interesting scene and it takes some looking to come up with a good concept and composition. I wanted the lake to really be the star of this piece and it is painted with Cheap Joe color Sky Blue and Titanium White.