Saturday, July 23, 2016

Coast of Maine Art Workshops

This coast of Maine attracts many painting workshops which attract many summer vacationers. They come from Massachusetts. Pennsyvania. Indiana. Alabama. Canada...How lucky I am to live here! I am so in love with "my" midcoast Maine!!
I attended a day of a class of Mel Stabin. I was thrilled that the location that day was "my" Camden. In the afternoon, after painting a harbor scene, I sought refuge from the heat in "my" library, the place where I often do my ink & color sketches, usually of people (see previous post). How fun to try a painted sketch this time, & larger, trying to apply some of what Stabin had demonstrated in the morning. And how uncertain too...
 After I got home I experimented more, on a small scale. No drawing, just seeing what the paint and the brush were up to. I am trying to work more with wet on wet which is what watercolor does best. Stabin says let it play...Let IT decide. A curious interplay between control & letting go of control.

6 comments:

  1. Delightful sketches. The interplay you mention is difficult in many of life's activities!

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  2. I love your midcoast too. I also love letting the paint "visit" other colors.

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  3. Must have been a fun class..I have been trying watercolor w/out a drawing and I surprised myself..not great..but doable..
    I love the window scene and the glass:)
    Isn't it lovely to LOVE where we live?

    Have a beautiful Sunday..I am going blueberry picking:)

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  4. Rita -- Your new place along the coast is absolutely beautiful as sketched by you the artist. I think you picked the best spot to locate after you left Portland. -- barabara

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  5. Rita -- Your new place along the coast is absolutely beautiful as sketched by you the artist. I think you picked the best spot to locate after you left Portland. -- barabara

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  6. Maybe in August we will trip over each other in town . . .:)) Luv your sketches and paintings, as usual . . . xx

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