West Fjords Iceland

 Schmincke Creative Contest Entry

West Fjords Iceland

 

a memory of the view I saw looking to the north west while living five-weeks solo on an island off the coast of Iceland, painted November 18, 2024, 16" x 7" (w x h), using Schmincke Horadam Payne's Gray Bluish, Cobalt Turquoise, Olive Green Yellowish watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, for the Schmincke Creative Contest and on the Schmincke website as #137 HERE

Schmincke Watercolor Creative Contest

Watercolor for metal painting set cover painted with only Schmincke watercolors. I used Payne's Gray Bluish, Cobalt Turquoise, Olive Green Yellowish, the only Schmincke brand watercolors in my palette. 

Sized proportionally at 12 x 5 (w x h).

The metal painting set has 4 mixing panels. with the Schmincke owl logo in black or white on the left-hand mixing panel.

The deadline is December 31, 2024 with the three winners of the notified not later than January 15, 2025.

The Schmincke contest page is HERE.

 

Field Shadows Fall into Autumn

Field Shadows Fall into Autumn
inspired after a Nov 15th walk
at Maine Audubon, Falmouth, Maine
and painted Nov 18, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h).

How?
A Quick 14 Minute Sketch
Using a 1" flat brush on 5" x 7" Fabriano Artistico paper.

Wet sky solid color with a deeper blue color spread into the top. Violet painted quickly below with hard edge open with spaces, and edging the wet violet into the wet blue sky, holding the paper tilted so that the violet blooms as trees into the sky, the wonders of watercolor. With the sky still wet, brush out the clouds with a damp brush and a bit of paper towel, lifting the color, which works fabulous with Fabriano but not at all with Arches watercolor papers. When dry, add depth with deep Payne's Gray Blue, and finally add the fields in the white spaces with Naples Yellow, leaving some white edges for eye-catching contrast using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$200

Libby Becca Two Studies

Libby Becca Study 1

at our weekly drawing / painting group in Kennebunkport, Maine on Nov 8, 2024, 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 lbs. Arches cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper, framed.
$300.

Libby Becca Study 2

at our weekly drawing / painting group in Kennebunkport, Maine on Nov 8, 2024, 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 lbs. Arches cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper, framed.
$300.

Beech Leaves Leaving Study 1

Beech Leaves Leaving Study 1

as seen from my screened porch painted Nov 10, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Beech Leaves Leaving Study 2

Beech Leaves Leaving Study 2

as seen from my screened porch painted Nov 10, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Yellow Blue Nude Too

Yellow Blue Nude Too

at our weekly Kennebunkport, Maine drawing/painting group on Oct 11, 2024, 9" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and graphite on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300

​A Ferry Peaks I

​A Ferry Peaks I

on Casco Bay, Portland, Maine, the Machigonne I, September 15, 2024, painted October 28, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), using Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, all selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400.

Art Essay - Casco Bay Ferries

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 Art Essay on the

Casco Bay Island Ferries

The Portland, Maine Harbor ferries have a distinctive visual color scheme with yellow and white, red trim, black hull, on the blue bay. This is an essay on how four artists see those ferries and four other artists simply focus in the abstract on those same colors, yellow, white, red, black, and blue.

1
Title unknown
The Machigonne II Peaks Island Ferry
Paul Brahms (1963- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" 16" (w x h), 2024
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986
The artist's website HERE. More art HERE.

2
Seascape
Roy Lichtenstein, (1923-1997), American
Lithograph, woodcut, and screenprint, 53" x 27" (w x h), 1985
Edition 60, printed and published by Gemini G.E.L.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

3
Portland Ferry Reflection
Sarah Knock (1948- ), American
Oil on canvas, 20" x 28" (w x h), 2022
11th Portland Biennial Show,
Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
The artist's website is HERE.

4

Untitled (Geometric Abstraction)
John McLaughlin (1898-1976), American
Oil on composition board, 38" x 32" (w x h), 1953
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

5
Ferry Boat, Portland, Maine Harbor
George Anderson (1931- ) Canadian/American
Acrylic on canvas, 22" x 26" (w x h)
Anderson Gallery, Portland, ME
For sale: $ 2,500 USD
The artist's website is HERE.

6
Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Oil on canvas, 22" x 24" (w x h), 1937-42
MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

7
Workers
Norma Johnsen (1939- ), American
Oil on canvas, 12" x 16" (w x h), 2020
The artist lives and paints on Peaks Island.

8
Composition of Red, Blue, Yellow and White: Nom III
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Dutch
Screenprint in colors, 17" x 17" (w x h), 1967
from A Portfolio of Ten Paintings, edition of 150
For sale: $5,800 USD

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