View from Owls Head Light

 View from Owls Head Light

after the overcast sky cleared at Owls Head, Maine
sketched on September 14, 2015
12" x 9", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 5
Demo and Critique in Owls Head, Maine
Lighthouse Park and David's Summer Home
September 14, 2015
 

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Gathering at the beach below Owls Head Light
for David Dewey's demo.
 

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On on overcast morning...
 

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"The rock needs to be framed just a little more.
The sky's okay."
 

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David does a forty-five minute demo.
 

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Our lunchtime critique at David's summer home and studio.
 

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Painting is silent poetry,
and poetry is painting that speaks. -Plutarch
And David's words, hands and paints do it all.
 

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"Óskar, this is your best color painting of the week.
It's delicious. You have a whole lot of freeness with your brush.
I love these two beautiful colors, your drawing really important and
necessary. Wonderful Diebenkornesque open space going on." -David Dewey
Richard Diebenkorn HERE.
 

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Óskar Thorarensen of Iceland, blog and Facebook

Painting Under a Tent

Painting Under a Tent

David Dewey Demo on a rainy day in Rockland, Maine
on September 13, 2015, sketched on September 13, 2015
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
#3 graphite, on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

 

Harbor View from Under a Tent

on a rainy day at Mechanics Street in Rockland, Maine
on September 13, 2015, sketched on September 13, 2015
12" x 9", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
#3 graphite, on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 4
Demo and Critique in Rockland, Maine
Tent Park on Mechanics StreetSeptember 13, 2015

 Concentrating

Colors mingling, thought,
pencil, pause, brush, color, pause,
wet, paint, flow, to art.
 text and photo © 2015 Bruce McMillan

 

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On a rainy morning under
the welcoming arms of a tent...
 

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...the Dewey smile shined.
 

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And we listened.
 

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"Everything is on my brush.
The whole world is there."
 

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"You have to sacrifice reality for
the sake of the painting."
 

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David's legs are his easel, his art flipping around
to accommodate his brush strokes and water flow.
 

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At the afternoon critique
David Dewey makes his points with style,
his words expressed as a work of art.

House by the Sea

House by the Sea

at an estate in Cushing, Maine
sketched plein air on September 12, 2015
12" x 9", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, #3 graphite,
and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

Six by the Sea

at an estate in Cushing, Maine
sketched plein air on September 12, 2015
12" x 9", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, #3 graphite,
and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

Photo of David Dewey's watercolor palette
during his demo of A Porter View
in Cushing, Maine on September 12, 2015 

Abstract Palette
Watercolor mix,
towel ready, palette full, 
 yet to be reclaimed.
text and photo © 2015 Bruce McMillan

Strange but True Fact
One might say that painters of art
shovel their color onto the surface because
the etymology of the word palette is from the
Old French palete meaning "small shovel, blade"
which came from the Latin pala meaning
"spade, shoulder blade".

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 3
Afternoon Critique in Cushing, Maine
by the Sea at a Private Estate
September 12, 2015
 

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Spectacular setting handy to the sea, and handy for our see...

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...and handy for David to discuss our art.

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From the hands of a Mexican artist
to the critique through the hands of David.

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The visual poet speaks with his hands.

 

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While Bruce snapped David...

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...friend and fellow painter Óskar Thorarensen
(blog and Facebook) snapped Bruce.

 

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And David shared his insights
for another satisfying day.

Friday Figure Studies Nora

Friday Figure Study I Nora

at the Figure Group in Kennebunkport, Maine
sketched on September 25, 2015
9" x 12", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

 

Friday Figure Study II Nora

at the Figure Group in Kennebunkport, Maine
sketched on September 25, 2015
9" x 12", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Friday Figure Study III Nora
Two Minute Sketch

at the Figure Group in Kennebunkport, Maine
sketched on September 25, 2015
5" x 7", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Dewey Painting a Porter View

Dewey Painting a Porter View

David Dewey at an estate in Cushing, Maine
on September 12, 2015, sketched plein air on September 12, 2015
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
online at my art blog HERE where you may leave a comment
NFS: In the collection of Ruth Kaldor

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 3
Morning Demo in Cushing, Maine
by the Sea at a Private Estate
September 12, 2015
 

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It was a Fairfield Porter-like setting, fabulous.
 

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"The Color Narrative:
Colors that tell and remember and
represent the story of a place."
 

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While tilting the board and rolling the set color around:
"Keep it moving; keep it wet; washing it around,
wet over without wetting into the paper.
Keep it tilted, top to bottom,
dark to light."
 

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"Let the paint lead the drawing."
 

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"You're writing in color. How can you forget this day?"
 

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"Yellow on the clapboards;
now it's officially Porterized."
(Fairfield Porter)
 

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The thumbnail study, Watercolor on writing paper, 7" x 4"
In the collection of Ruth Kaldor
 

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A Porter View
David Dewey

"Hit the character of that tree. Don't try to describe it."

The finished art, 15" x 8", Watercolor on arches paper
In the collection of Ruth Kaldor

Clouds Departing

 Clouds Departing

seen from an estate by the sea in Cushing, Maine
on September 11, 2015, sketched plein air on September 11, 2015
18" x 14", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
online at my art blog HERE where you may leave a comment
sold framed, $200 plus $11.00 sales tax plus $13.00 shipping = $225.00

Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE

 
 Photo by David Dewey of (left to right)
Bruce McMillan (foreground),
Mike Mecklenburg and Joe Dinapoli painting

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 2
Afternoon Critique in Cushing, Maine
by the Sea at a Private Estate
September 11, 2015
 
Photo using camera painting motion
of David Dewey during the afternoon critique
in Cushing, Maine on September 11, 2015 

With a Pencil

This artist draws,
form in space on
paper. Paint soars,
brushing, white gone.

Then this artist
draws again, pause,
thought, paper is kissed
by brush, applause

of color, as
pencil lines are
lost, pencil has
left its mark, "ah".

by Bruce McMillan
text and photo using camera motion painting
© 2015 Bruce McMillan

 

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Clouds parted for our always informative and entertaining
afternoon critique with David Dewey
 

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Portrait of David in yellow and black
(using no camera painting motion)
David, the visual poet with words, speaks with his hands.
 

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"Form makes space. Space makes form."
Art of Ruth Kaldor.
 

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Ruth Kaldor enthralled by
David's comments on her art of this day.
 

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"The back pushes the foreground forward.
That's what happened in Óskar's painting yesterday."
 

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Hands on critiquing, "Wow, stormy."
On Bruce's morning sketch in the afternoon sunlight.
 

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"Deliberately, accidentally, unintendedly...you don't
need much of a subject to paint."