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What a difference a week makes!

Carol L. DouglasJul 18, 20133 min read
Amy drew her cat. It’s a lovely likeness of a cat in motion. Last week I challenged Amy Vail to let me teach her to draw, after she told me she “lacked the gene” to do it. Amy has never had a drawing lesson before. I want to show you her progress, because it’s amazing …
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Top ten seascapes of all time!!!

Carol L. DouglasJul 17, 20134 min read
A recent Guardian columnsought to identify the ten best sea pictures of all time. I propose an alternative list, not the “best”—because the idea of “top ten paintings” is in itself ridiculous—but ten equally brilliant and perhaps less famous seascapes, here presented in no particular order. (My apologies to Turner and Monet; I only omitted …
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Painting and politicians

Carol L. DouglasJul 16, 20134 min read
Winston Churchill, The Goldfish Pond at Chartwell, 1932. I think any artist would be proud to have painted this. When we were painting in Camden at my first workshop last month, an elderly gentleman asked Sandy if he could take her photo with her painting. “After all,” he said, “you could be the next Winston …
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Mostly, what’s changed are the trees…

Carol L. DouglasJul 15, 20133 min read
Safe Harbor, 20X24, oil on canvasboard, almost finished. I started this during the last year in which my painting partner Marilyn Feinberg was still in Rochester. It is as big a canvas—20X24—as I ever do en plein air. That size usually takes two or more sessions to finish, but without Marilyn around to schlep up …
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A Sunday Afternoon on the Ontario Beach Park Jetty

Carol L. DouglasJul 14, 20132 min read
Georges-Pierre Seurat, Un dimanche après-midi Ă  l’ĂŽle de la Grande Jatte, 1884-1886 I have young nephews visiting. It seemed on this blistering hot day that a day at Ontario Beach Park would be a good way to burn off some of their energy. They went swimming and I sat in the shade sketching. As they …