Join me this Saturday for Wine and Watercolors in the garden
Saturday, July 20, 2013, 4:30pm until 7:30pm Hollyhocks, by little ol’ me. Summer is just bustin’ out all over, and it makes me want to paint! Join me for an afternoon of laughter, stories, and painting some sweet little greeting-card-sized watercolors in Lakewatch Manor’s lovely gardens. (There will be an indoor studio option if weather threatens.) Our …
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Amazing new diet plan! Take up drawing!
Watermelon & Cherries, by Brad Marshall, oil on canvas board, 11×14. Executing this luscious painting probably elevated Brad’s mood by 22%, but who can tell when he’s already so darn cheerful? It’s for Rye Art Center’s annual Painters on Location in September, and I imagine it will elevate the mood of some lucky collector too. A …
Looking forward to next weekend in mid-coast Maine
Rockwell Kent, Late Afternoon, Monhegan Island, collection of Jamie and Phyllis Wyeth It is a warm, sluggish summer day. My thoughts are already jumping ahead to this month’s Maine workshop. Our day trip to Monhegan Island was cancelled in June because of weather, so I’m doubly excited. A chance word by a FB friend got me …
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“I can’t draw a straight line.”
Street in Saintes-Maries, ca. July 17, 1888, by Vincent van Gogh–done as a mature artist. The good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise (which is, sadly, not wholly rhetorical right now) I will have a new drawing student this week. My friend has internalized the message that she can’t learn to draw; in fact …
I’ve never painted like this before, but I am finally satisfied.
Completed landscape, Mendon, looking north. A year in the painting, and it’s finally finished to my satisfaction. My very patient clients are coming tomorrow to see it. All technique innovations start with an unanswerable problem. In this case, it was capturing the thousand prismatic details of a fallow autumn field. In fall, red leans against …
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