Dusk at the Third Pond

Dusk at the Third Pond

on the ponds walk behind my home in Shapleigh, Maine
on March 31, 2016, sketched on April 1, 2016
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
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Contemplating M M...

Contemplating
Memphremagog Melting

at sunset in Magog, Quebec, Canada
on March 26, 2016, sketched on March 31, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Lake Memphremagog...

Lake Memphremagog, Quebec /
Lac Memphrémagog, Québec

in melting ice before sunset seen from Magog, Quebec, Canada
on March 26, 2016, sketched on March 29, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors
on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain
100% cotton watercolor paper
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Between Cat Art

Between Cat Art

Ruth Kaldor in the International Museum of Naive Art
of Magog in Magog, Quebec, Canada on March 26, 2016,
sketched on March 27, 2016
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
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 Seen in Between Cat Art above

Grosse Famille / Big Family
Cécile Emond
Oil on Masonite, 91 cm x 61.5 cm, 1992

Online at the Museum HERE

Musée international d'art naïf de Magog /
International Museum of Naive Art of Magog web site HERE
 
 

Beautiful and Crazy...

Beautiful and Crazy in Magog

(Beau et Fou) in Magog

along the sidewalk on the
main street of Magog, Quebec, Canada
on March 26 , 2016, sketched on March 27, 2016
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
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Quiet Sunrise in...

Quiet Sunrise in Florida Sky

sketched plein air on February 22, 2016
5" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors
on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain
100% cotton watercolor paper
$35 + $1.93 sales tax + $8.07 shipping = $35.00

Sunset Florida...

Sunset Florida,
Sunrise Somewhere

at A Day Away Kayak Launch Spot along Haulover Canal
in Titusville, Florida sketched plein air on February 22, 2016
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
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Isolated View

Isolated View

of Ruth Kaldor viewing Isolation Peak, Rocky Mountains,
by Lawren Harris, Oil on canvas, 50" x 42", 1930 at the MFA Boston, MA
on March 17, 2016, sketched on March 22, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Curves Reclining

Curves Reclining

Model Krystal at our Drawing Group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 18, 2016
12" x 9", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Walking by Ellsworth

Walking by Ellsworth

Kelley's Blue Green Yellow Orange Red, oil on canvas,
22' 8" x 10', 1968, Ruth Kaldor at the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts
on March 17, 2016, sketched on March 20, 2016
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
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Abstract artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923- ), whose work is in
the MFA, Boston, studied in his youth for eighteen months
at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts while he lived
in Roxbury at the time. He drew local children. Those
drawings, he said, "are still in a drawer."

Model Mugs

 Torso as a Mug

Model Krystal at our Drawing Group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 18, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
these three, framed in one frame, all three
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Model with a Mug

Model Krystal at our Drawing Group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 18, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
these three, framed in one frame, all three
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Model Done with a Mug

Model Krystal at our Drawing Group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 18, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
these three, framed in one frame, all three
$100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Sunset over Indian River Lagoon

Sunset over Indian River Lagoon

at A Day Away Kayak Launch Spot along Haulover Canal
in Titusville, Florida sketched plein air on February 22, 2016
11" x 7", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Bottle Model Negative Space

Bottle Model Negative Space

at the Kennebunkport Drawing Group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 16, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Photo by Bruce McMillan
of Slash pines (Pinus elliottii)
in the Ocala National Forest,
Central Florida on February 21, 2016

Sunny Day Space
by Bruce McMillan
Positive space pines,
negative space clouds, blue sky,
sun, no rain today.

photograph and haiku poem © 2016 Bruce McMillan
 

Tern Turning Dive

Tern Turning Dive

a Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) diving for fish
in the surf off a beach in the Matanzas Fort National Park
on February 19, 2016, sketched on March 16, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and #3 graphite
with Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Beach Strolling Freedom

Out for a stroll, edge of the sea,
out for a stroll, edge of the see.

Beach Strolling Freedom

Vicki S. on the beach at the Cape Canaveral
National Seashore in Florida in February 2016,
from a photo by her husband, sketched on March 15, 2016
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
Private Collection

By Bucks Lake Florida

By Bucks Lake Florida

Slash pines (Pinus elliottii) in the Ocala National Forest,
Central Florida on February 21, 2016, sketched on March 13, 2016
9" x 7.5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $170 + $9.35 sales tax + $15.65 S&H = $195.00

Inland Florida Fine Art
of the Masters in Watercolor

1
Florida Swamp
Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009
Watercolor on paper, 29" x 21", 1939
Gift of Stephanie Etnier Doane, daughter of artist Stephan Etnier
Portland (Maine) Museum of Art
Art in Museum HERE

N.C. Wyeth taught his son Andrew how to paint watercolors. He and Andrew, twenty-one at the time, went to Florida in 1939. Andrew was still studying. They stayed at the Baskin's hotel, near Ocala for three weeks. They sketched and painted around Cross Creek and the Big Scrub. This is the area where Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings wrote The Yearling. They visited many sites connected to the novel and met the author.
    In a February 22, 1939 letter, Rawlings wrote how "Young Wyeth did some stunning water colors while he was here with his father." She mentioned that two years before his Florida visit Andrew had his first one-man watercolor show in New York City, and that he "works very fast, direct from the landscape, without sketching, and does not work on the pieces again. He has the genius to get away with it." The author hoped she might purchase one of the watercolors, a marsh scene he did just up the road from her farmhouse. But it was too expensive, $150. "The Scotch in me rebelled against that price."

2
Palmettos, Florida
John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925
Watercolor, graphite, and wax crayon
on white wove paper, 21" x 14", 1917
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Art in Museum HERE

Born in Florence, Italy to American parents, John Singer Sargent grew up on two continents. He traveled throughout his adult life, living in or visiting England, Italy, Tangiers, Syria, Palestine, Spain, Portugal, Greece, the Alps, Norway and the US, including Niagara Falls, Maine and Florida. When travel to John Singer Sargent's favorite European locales proved difficult during World War I, he spent some time living and painting in Florida. These two Florida paintings were done in 1917.

3
Landscape with Palmettos
John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper,
53" x 35", 1917
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950
Art in Museum HERE

4
In the Jungle, Florida
Winslow Homer, 1836-1910
Transparent watercolor with touches
of opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white,
moderately thick, moderately textured wove paper, 1904
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art in Museum HERE

Winslow Homer often combined his hunting and painting excursions, traveling to remote destinations in the Adirondacks and Canada in summer, Florida and Bermuda in winter. Using wet and dry washes, Homer also utilized additional techniques, blotting areas of pigment and rubbing the paper rough.

5
Homosassa jungle (Florida)
Winslow Homer, 1836-1910
Watercolor, 22" x 14", 1904
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Homer, in memory of
the late Charles S. Homer and his brother, Winslow Homer
Art in Museum HERE

Willet Wading

Willet Wading

a willet (Tringa semipalmata) at Matanzas Beach in
the Matanzas Fort National Park in Matanzas, Florida
on February 24, 2016, 2016, sketched on March 11, 2016
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
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

My Sunshine

My Sunshine

Ruth Kaldor on Matanzas Beach in the
Matanzas Fort National Park in Matanzas, Florida
on February 24, 2016, sketched on March 8, 2016
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
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Stages of This Art

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Adrienne Studies

Adrienne Study I

at the art drawing group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 4, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Adrienne Study II

at the art drawing group
in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 4, 2016
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and
Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Young Terns Face the Breeze

Young Terns Face the Breeze

juvenile Royal Terns (Thalasseus maximus)
at water's edge at the Matanzas National Park in Matanzas, Florida
on February 19, 2016, sketched on March 3, 2016
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
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Caldecott Under Red Cedar

Caldecott Under Red Cedar

The grave site of British illustrator Randolph Caldecott
at the Evergreen Cemetery in St. Augustine, Florida
on February 20, 2016, sketched on March 4, 2016
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
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Randolph Caldecott Site Photos
 

1
"Sacred in the Memory of
Randolph Caldecott
Born
at Chester England
March 22, 1846
Died
at St. Augustine
Feb. 12, 1886"

2
Under a Red Cedar

 

3
Bruce McMillan Visiting
the Caldecott Grave Site
February 20, 2016

4
The Site

5
The Plaque at the Site

6
Looking Up Through the Red Cedar Tree
Over the Caldecott Grave

About Randolph Caldecott HERE

Randolph Caldecott Society UK HERE

Pelican Grown, Pelican Young

Pelican Grown, Pelican Young

Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) flying over
Matanzas National Park Beach in Matanzas, Florida
on February 24, 2016, sketched on March 1, 2016
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
framed, $100 + $5.50 sales tax + $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Wet Sand Beach Walking

Wet Sand Beach Walking

Ruth Kaldor on Matanzas National Park Beach in Matanzas, Florida
on February 24, 2016, sketched on March 1, 2016
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
NFS