Thursday, May 1, 2025

Sea Whiteness Imagined

 

Sea Whiteness Imagined

This was painted during the 2024 Ogunquit (Maine) Perkins Cove Plein Air Event on September 7th with over 100 painters participating and judging done that day, but I submitted another one for judging. This one is a study that I refined further in my studio the following day to complete the finishing touches September 8, 2024, 14" x 11" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$750

Georgia O'Keeffe, York Beach, Maine, May 7, 1922
"...such whiteness I had never imagined — such maddening power — We climbed up and around and down over rocks — great walls of them."

This painting is included in the display and for sale in the exhibition Bruce McMillan's Coastal York with Georgia's Words at the York Hospital, York, ME, May 1, 2025 to August 31, 2025 featuring original watercolors of Bruce McMillan and excerpts from Georgia O'Keeffe's letters written from Long Sands Beach, York, ME in the 1920s when she visited alone to sketch and paint.

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