Over the Estuary

Over the Estuary

at Laudholm Farm Preserve in Wells, Maine
on September 19, 2014, sketched on September 30, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days
Challenge on the last day of the challenge HERE.

Sanderling Strut

Sanderling Strut

of a Sanderling (Calidris alba) in the surf at Laudholm Beach
in Wells, Maine on September 16, 2014, sketched on September 29, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE 

Sanderling Strut

Racing surf waters
to loose wet sand full of food,
high stepping wet struts.

haiku poem © 2014 Bruce McMillan
not for reuse without permission

Liftoff

Liftoff

of a young American Herring Gull (Larus argentatus smithsonianus)
at Laudholm Beach in Wells, Maine on September 19, 2014,
sketched on September 28, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

View from the Downeaster Train Window

View from the Downeaster Train Window

in evening light traveling north from Boston, Massachusetts
on September 16, 2014, sketched on September 26, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Color Comes to the Museum

Color Comes to the Museum

in autumn outside the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts
on September 16, 2014, sketched on September 25, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Figures Viewing Jamie Wyeth's Art

Figures Viewing Jamie Wyeth's Art

And Then into the Deep Gorge and 10 W 30
at the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Massachusetts
on September 16, 2014, sketched on September 24, 2014

7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.

Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper

unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Probing Probst I

 

Probing Probst I

by Franz Kline in Gallery 328 at the Museum of Fine Art
in Boston, Massachusetts on September 16, 2014,
Art online for viewing at the Museum of Fine Art HERE 
sketched on September 24, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

 

Probst I, Franz Kline

Kathy's Flowers

Kathy's Flowers

behind their Dewey home in Owls Head, Maine
on September 15, 2014, sketched on September 23, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

David Dewey Painting

David Dewey Painting

at the Spruce Head Marine boatyard in Spruce Head, Maine
on September 13, 2014, sketched on September 22, 2014
6" x 4", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Strathmore cold press 100% archival watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Lights from The Pearl

Lights from The Pearl

in twilight of the restaurant on pilings over the harbor in Rockland, Maine
on September 13 2014, sketched on September 21, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Photo using a very slow shutter speed with camera painting motion 

in the twilight of light reflections from The Pearl restaurant built on pilings 

over the harbor at Rockland, Maine on September 13, 2014
 

Painting . . .

by Bruce McMillan

. . . with my camera,

a brush in motion

as I sweep,

painting pilings lines

dazzling points of lights

reflecting off water

in the twilight

on my digital canvas;

then with my brush

in motion over my paper

watercolor dots of color

as reflections off water,

broad sweeps of twilight sky

 and almost green sea

and dark pilings before

the Pearl takes shape;

painting beyond

photo realism

with camera and brush,

capturing an impression,

an ism of impressionism,

an ism of abstract impressionism,

an ism of minimalism,

an it-is-what-it-is Brucieism.

poem © 2014 Bruce McMillan
not for reuse without permission

 

Dewey Painting Demo

Dewey Painting Demo

Pondering the art of watercolor painting by David Dewey at Birch Point Beach
State Park,in Owls Head, Maine on September 15, 2014, 

his book HERE, his web site HERE, his figures HERE, 

sketched on September 19, 2014
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper

unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

He She Be

He She Be

lawn chairs at painter David Dewey's home in Owls Head, Maine
on September 15, 2014, sketched on September 19, 2014
6" x 4", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.
Strathmore cold press 100% cotton watercolor paper
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE 

He She Be
by Bruce McMillan

"Nice day," said he.
"Indeed," said she.
"We seem to be
two," supposed he.
"Two be or not?"
questioned she.
 
poem © 2014 Bruce McMillan
not for reuse without permission

Strange but True Facts: Shakespeare's soliloquy, "To be, or not to be, that is the question—" is written without a question mark.

Caldbeck Gallery on Elm Street

Caldbeck Gallery on Elm Street

looking towards the Wyeth Center of the Farnsworth Museum
in Rockland, Maine on September 15, 2014,
sketched on September 17, 2014, Caldbeck Gallery HERE
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.

Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper

unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

At David Dewey's Watercolor Workshop

David Dewey is the author of 

The Watercolor Book

Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist

Watson Guptill, 1995

 

Marjie at David Dewey's Watercolor Workshop
Rockland Landing on Mechanic Street
Watercolor, 6" x 4"

 

 Jerry at David Dewey's Watercolor Workshop
Rockland Landing on Mechanic Street
Watercolor, 5" x 7"

 

Beach Towel II

The influence of color on my work from the David Dewey Workshop:
This is your Turner's Boats. Save this; frame it." -David Dewey
Boats at Sea, J.M.W. Turner HERE

Beach Towel II

Beach Towel (the first in this series online HERE)
at Birch Point Beach State Park in Owls Head, Maine
on September 15, 2014, sketched on September 15, 2014
11" x 6", A-size Berkley and Jensen 2-ply quilted paper towel
unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping
Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

David Dewey Watercolor
Workshop Class Day 5 of 5

David Dewey's web site HERE 

1
Birch Point Beach State Park at 9:00 am 
We gather. About the beach site HERE

2
Colors for the art

3
"It has to be rich chromatically
as I even the colors out." David Dewey


4
"Framing, lifting, balancing.
See your subject through that lens." David Dewey

David Dewey goes back and forth as he works,
painting and drawing and painting and drawing . . .

 

5
"I'm not trying to describe any rocks.
I'm just trying to get a blanket shape over it."
"When painting the darks on rocks:
"See my blanket? As heavy as it is, it's lifting.
It's still a blanket but I'm just trying to
sculpt it out with my darks." David Dewey


6
"I'm going to add the island, the baguettes, three baguettes.
The three baguettes, sounds like a singing group of three ladies.
The Three Baguettes." David Dewey

 

7
On changes of the sky and light while painting plein air:
"Get the frame down. Get anchored that way." David Dewey

 

8
Our graduation ceremony at David Dewey's Owls Head home.

View from Spruce Head

View from Spruce Head

in the village of Spruce Head in South Thomaston, Maine

on September 14, 2014, sketched on September 14, 2014

20" x 14", Winsor & Newton watercolors, #3 graphite, on 140 lb.

Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper

unframed, sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $10 shipping

Also posted at Leslie Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge HERE.

Color in the Wash 

by Bruce McMillan

Water drips,

surface wash,
color spreads,
ocean greens,
subtle tones,
water color
painting, see?

poem © 2014 Bruce McMillan

not for reuse without permission

1

Gathering at the boatyard at Spruce Head, Maine

2

A demonstration of a color wash for the sky and sea.

3

The scene for the art.

4

"It all comes out in the wash," said David Dewey,  

"so to speak." . . . two . . . three . . . four.

5

"A landscape is a sandwich of color  

with a heavy dose of sky." –David Dewey

6

The finished art at Spruce Head, Maine,  

ready with the power of its wash.

7

The Ashlee Marie lobsterboat of Spruce Head,  

ready for a hull power wash.

8

Bruce McMillan by David Dewey,
framed, awash in orange and blue.