Bruce's SPL Painting Workshop

Lower Orchard Three

Ninety-one year old apple trees in the lower orchard at McDougal Orchards, Hanson's Ridge, Springvale, Maine, (website HERE) demo painted plein air July 19, 2022, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
Sold at the Three Rivers Land Trust 2022 benefit auction

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Bruce's Painting Workshop
July 19, 2022
The Springvale Public Library
2022 Watercolor Workshop
All student fees were donated to the SPL auction fundraiser.

We painted up the hill from the Springvale Public Library on Hanson's Ridge in the lower orchard at McDougal Orchards, a six generation family farm business where I'd photographed my children's book Apples: How They Grow (Houghton,  1979)

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My plein air demo started as a sketch on a hot humid windy day.

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Bobbi Heath, an oil painter, was here to improve her watercolor skills.

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Bobbi Heath notes:
1) Creating green by layering yellow and blue.
2) Not using ultramarine blue in making the greens.
3) More white of the paper.
4) Lifting.
5) Going over the sky more than once to add pigment.

Bobbi Heath's art website is HERE.

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The scene...

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Bobbi's first and second watercolor paintings, moving from thinking in oil painting mode to thinking in watercolor painting mode, two entirely different approaches, from opaque to transparent, from where white is a color on the palette to where white is the watercolor paper itself.

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My subject in the lower orchard at McDougal Orchards, and two studies...

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Apple Tree Hanging Out

in the lower orchard at McDougal Orchards, Hanson's Ridge, Springvale, Maine, painted plein air July 19, 2022, 10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
Sold at the Three Rivers Land Trust 2022 benefit auction

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Ninety-one Years Still Growing

in the lower orchard at McDougal Orchards, Hanson's Ridge, Springvale, Maine, painted plein air July 19, 2022, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
Sold at the Three Rivers Land Trust 2022 benefit auction