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

 

1
Clouds parted for our always informative and entertaining
afternoon critique with David Dewey
 

2
Portrait of David in yellow and black
(using no camera painting motion)
David, the visual poet with words, speaks with his hands.
 

3
"Form makes space. Space makes form."
Art of Ruth Kaldor.
 

4
Ruth Kaldor enthralled by
David's comments on her art of this day.
 

5
"The back pushes the foreground forward.
That's what happened in Óskar's painting yesterday."
 

6
Hands on critiquing, "Wow, stormy."
On Bruce's morning sketch in the afternoon sunlight.
 

7
"Deliberately, accidentally, unintendedly...you don't
need much of a subject to paint."

David Dewey Between Baguettes

 David Dewey Between Baguettes

sharing and describing his watercolor art in Cushing, Maine
on September 11, 2015, sketched on September 22, 2015
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
#3 graphite, 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

sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

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

David Dewey
Watercolor Workshop Day 2
Morning Demo in Cushing, Maine
by the Sea at a Private Estate
September 11, 2015

 

Color Mingling
On the palette, mix
and mingle, on the paper
mix and mingle, wet.
 

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

 

1
On this overcast day:
"Where is the color?
I'm going to mix colors to make grays."
 

2
"Color doesn't have to be in your face."
 

3
On the distant islands in the horizon:
"The baguette: long, thin, and flat on the bottom."
 

4
"Painting distant greens, what comes first? Blue."
 

5
"Isn't that amazing,
a hundred trees with the touch of a brush."
 

6
Lulu, our workshop mascot,
takes in the scene of the art.
 

7
"Do you use a liner brush?"
"No that would be like tickling a painting.
Use a liner brush to paint pinstripes on cars."
 

8
"Don't render with the tip of your brush;
paint with it."

Rockland Forms

Rockland Forms

during day one of the David Dewey Workshop in Rockland, Maine
sketched plein air on September 10, 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
sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

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

David Dewey Watercolor Workshop
with the musings of David as he paints his demo

 
1
The scene to be painted for David's Painting Demo

"Don't let the drawing get ahead of you.
In other words don't overdraw. You don't
want to spoil the fun of the painting." 

2
"I'm defining the drawing with color." It's like poetry."

3
"I'm establishing my palette. Now the colors feed the painting."

4
"How many ways can you say red?"

5
"Color: I'm mingling on the palette;
I'm mingling on the paper."

6
"Be bright with your light,
balancing your lights and darks."

7
"When everyone sings in the opera,
you know exactly what's going on."
 

8
The same house painted fifteen years ago
with today's watercolor.

Photos of David Dewey's hands
in Rockland, Maine on September 10, 2015
The Art of Communication
David Dewey...
 

...speaks with his hands,
 

...paints with his hands,
 

...and sings with his hands.

With Óskar at Iceland House
 

We three in Óskar art,
Óskar, Ruth and Bruce, were moored
for the workshop...

 

....while a house on Mechanic Street waited to be painted.
 

But first sketched.
 

And then painted by Óskar.
 

Afterward, back at Iceland House in Owls Head,
Óskar put on a quick painting demo to
show how to release water
beads of color.

Plein Air Parasoled

Plein Air Parasoled

at Grimes Cove, Ocean Point, Maine
painted plein air on September 9, 2015
with the Plein air Painters of Maine
8" x 10", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, #3 graphite,
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

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

Before it Blew Away

at Grimes Cove, Ocean Point, Maine
painted plein air on September 9, 2015
with the Plein air Painters of Maine
5" x 7", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
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

Ready, Aim, Snap

Ready, Aim, Snap

Bruce McMillan, with a hat for protection from protective terns
near their nesting area, photographing Arctic terns in Garður, Iceland
from a photo by fellow painter and friend, Óskar Thorarensen,
his blog HERE, on July 17, 2015, sketched on September 9, 2015
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, and #3 graphite
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

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

Flow to the Basin

Flow to the Basin

the Pemigewasset River flowing down to the Basin
in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
on August 20, 2015, sketched on September 8, 2015
7" x 5", 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, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

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

T-Shirt and Pillowcase

T-Shirt and Pillowcase
Laundry Drying on a
Wild Highbush Blueberry Bush

(Vaccinium corymbosum) in my yard in Shapleigh, Maine
on September 6, 2015, sketched on September 7, 2015
7" x 5", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors,
and #3 graphite, 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

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

Chicks at the Fair

Chicks at the Fair

at the 150th Acton Fair in Acton, Maine
on August 28, 2015, sketched on September 6, 2015
7" x 5", 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, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

 The Acton (Maine) Fair Web Site HERE

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

Artist and Model

Artist and Model

Alastair Dacey at the opening of his art show at the
Todd Bonita Art Gallery on Shore Road in Ogunquit, Maine
on August 29, 2015, sketched on September 5, 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
sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

 

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

See Alastair's exhibition HERE
Alastair Dacey's web site HERE
In Alastair's Studio HERE

Summer in the Highlands

Summer in the Highlands

in the Kerlingarfjöll mountain range in Iceland
on July 4, 2015, sketched on September 4, 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, $150 plus $8.25 sales tax plus $11.75 shipping = $170.00

This is only available for sale during July 2016 at the Barn Gallery,
Ogunquit Maine, as part of the Barn Gallery Regional Artists,
Open Juried Show, 2016. The Barn Gallery's web site is HERE, 
and directions the their gallery is HERE.

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

Waterfall to the Basin

Waterfall to the Basin

in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire
on August 20, 2015, sketched on September 3, 2015
6" x 4", Winsor & Newton and Holbein watercolors, paraffin wax resist,
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

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

Figure Studies Molly

 Figure Study I Molly
Laying Down

at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
sketched on September 1, 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 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

 

Figure Study II Molly 
Laying Down
at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
12" x 9", cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 plus $9.35 sales tax plus $15.65 shipping = $195.00
 

Figure Study III Molly
Laying Down
at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
7" x 5", cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00
Also online at Leslie Saeta's Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days HERE
 

Figure Study IV Molly
Laying Down
at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
12" x 9", cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 plus $9.35 sales tax plus $15.65 shipping = $195.00
 

Figure Study V Molly
Laying Down
at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
12" x 9", cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $170 plus $9.35 sales tax plus $15.65 shipping = $195.00
 

Figure Study VI Molly
Laying Down
at the Barn Gallery Figure Group Ogunquit, Maine
7" x 5", cold press fine grain 100% cotton watercolor paper
sold framed, $100 plus $5.50 sales tax plus $9.50 shipping = $115.00

Teague the Photographer

 Teague the Photographer

aboard the Elizabeth Anne ferry approaching Port Clyde in Maine
on August 7, 2015, sketched on September 1, 2015
7" x 5", 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
NFS

Grandson Teague photographing Grampa Bruce by Grampa Bruce

 

Grampa Bruce photographing Grandson Teague by Grandson Teague
with Grandson Finn in the background