Jenny's Exhibition Opening...

Jenny's Exhibition Opening,

in a White Gallery, 5:35 pm,
7:12 pm, 6:06 pm

(left to right, 1) unknown art patron, 2) friend of the artist,

3) artist Jenny Brillhart, 4) artist's husband Chris Pace,

and 5) aunt of Jenny the artist) 

at the Dowling Walsh Art Gallery

in Rockland, Maine on May 3, 2019

painted from three images, May 4-6, 2019

13.5 " x 7.5" (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

$500 USD - Gift to the Artist

Preliminary sketches by Bruce McMillan

for the above watercolor painting

from the opening of
Jenny Brillhart's Exhibition Art HERE

May 3 - June 1, 2019

Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Jenny Art Show Study 1,
5:35 pm

on May 3, 1019, sketched on May 4, 2019

3.5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,

fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade

proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press extra

white rough 100% cotton watercolor paper, NFS

Jenny Art Show Study 2,
6:06 pm

on May 3, 1019, sketched on May 4, 2019

4" x 6" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,

fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade

proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press extra

white rough 100% cotton watercolor paper, NFS

Jenny Art Show Study 3,
5:35 pm, 7:12 pm

on May 3, 1019, sketched on May 4, 2019

9" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,

fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade

proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press extra

white rough 100% cotton watercolor paper, NFS

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Photo and Poem

Photo using defocused in camera painting motion

in the gallery of Jenny Brillhart's Exhibition

opening, at the Dowling Walsh Gallery in

Rockland, Maine, May 3, 2019

At Jenny's Exhibition Opening

by Bruce McMillan

Fine art on surrounding walls

figures filling the room, now,

a peopled gallery, observing art,

canvases absent of people, 

in a white walled gallery, 

paintings filled with folding chairs

overhead fans, easels at the ready,

a stool, a bed, a window,

art on the walls

in a white walled gallery, 

with the spirits of persons' presence

within the art, while enclosed figures

stand in this room, both touched

with contrapposto,

in a white walled gallery.

Text and photo © 2019 Bruce McMillan

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Jenny Brillhart's Exhibition

at the Dowling Walsh Exhibition Opening

365 Main Street, Rockland, Maine 04841

207-596-0084

Dowling Walsh Gallery HERE

May 3- June 1, 2019

Tuesday - Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Jenny Brillhart's Exhibition Art HERE

A Gallery Photo Essay
with Jenny Brillhart's Paintings,

Digital photographs straight, and "painted"

using in camera painting motion,

5:00 - 8:00 pm, May 3, 2019

1

Easel Holding the Materials;
Noonday (Overcast)

Jenny Brillhart
Oil and photo on aluminum,
20" x 29" (w x h), $4,300

2
Entering the White Gallery,
5:33 pm
Bruce McMillan

3
Styrofoam: 10:30 am
and 3:18 pm
Jenny Brillhart

Oil and photo on aluminum,

20" x 20" (w x h), Sold

4

Cool Daylight Warm
Galley Light, 5:35 pm

Bruce McMillan

5

7:05 pm A Toddler's
Gallery Ride

Bruce McMillan

6

Jenny's aunt, left,
Jenny, center, 5:46 pm

 Bruce McMillan

7

The Good Neighbor, Folded

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on panel, 46" x 82" (w x h), $11,400

8

Between the Art of Drywall,

Bruce and Jenny, 7:16 pm

by a Stonington friend of Jenny and Chris

9

Patrons at the Far End,
5:33 pm

Bruce McMillan

10

Teal Drywall for the Bath

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on panel, 46" x 82" (w x h), $11,400

11

Art Share by the Front 6:07 pm

Bruce McMillan

12

7:12 pm, Jenny in the
Middle of White

Bruce McMillan

13

Selectman's Office Print

and Lawn Chair

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on aluminum,

30" x 40" (w x h), $6,200

14

Selectman's Office Fan

with Coat Loop, 6:48 pm

Bruce McMillan

15

Selectman's Office

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on aluminum,

30" x 40" (w x h), $6,200

16

Viewing Art in Contrapposto,
7:02 pm

Bruce McMillan

17

Easel Holding the Still Life:

11:07 am and 5:15 pm (Late Winter)

Jenny Brillhart

Oil and photo on aluminum,

20" 20" (w x h), $3,500

18

R U Discussing AHRT, 7:05 pm

Bruce McMillan

19

The Good Neighbor,
Dark Window

Jenny Brillhart

Oil and photo on aluminum,

35" x 18" (w x h), $4,700

Coincidentally, I'd photographed

the front of their good neighbor's house while

staying with them on a Stonington painting week

last fall, photographing a photo series on a foggy day:

"Novels Yet to be Written, (The book covers are ready.)"

This was that one:

20

"The Square Windowed Door

to Round Peg's Widowed Heart"

Stonington, Maine on September 17, 2018.

Bruce McMillan

21

7:12 pm Gallery Forms Form

left to Contrapposto

Bruce McMillan

22

Taken from Contrapposto

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on panel,

11" x 13" (w x h), $2,100

23

6:44 pm's Invisible Thoughts

Bruce McMillan

24

Stool and Styrofoam 3:17, March

Jenny Brillhart

Oil on birch panel,

11" x 13" (w x h), $2,100

25

Jenny's 6:36 pm Pause

Bruce McMillan

26

Off the Wall, 6:47 pm

Bruce McMillan

27

Meanwhile, Discussing
Peach Peonies, 6:35 pm

with Jenny Brillhart
between Summer Gathering and A Walk Along

the Rocks, all by , acrylic

(Gathering, $5,500, and Peonies, $3,000, sold)

See this art of Greta Van Campen HERE

28

7:56 pm, Still Inside
on the Rainy Corner

Bruce McMillan

end

Coatroom Exhibition Exiting - OMMA Opening

Coatroom Exhibition Exiting

At the 2019 season members opening night
for the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
by the sea in Ogunquit , Maine,
on May 2, 1019, painted May 2, 2019
10" x 8" (w x h) , Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade
proof ink on 140 lb. Arches cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
Private Collection
 

At the member opening of the 2019 season
of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art
in Ogunquit, Maine, May 2, 2019
The Museum Web Site HERE

1
Seascape
Harmon Neill (1896-1981)
Oil on paper board, 1943
Collection of OMAA

This is a view from Marginal Way along Ogunquit near the home of Joseph Davol, a painter, which was painted seventy-six years ago in 1943. I know Marginal Way, having painted many watercolors along The Way, some on view HERE. I was taken by Harmon Neill's timeless painting. It could've been painted days ago, or at least looked that way. I was lost in thought, admiring it, and musing about it being more than three-quarters of a century old. I chatted with the woman next to me, who was also admiring it. Was I ever in for a surprise? She was a painter.

2
Evelyn Harper 

Not only was Evelyn Harper a painter, but she was the widow of Seascape's painter, Harmon Neill, admiring her late husband's fine art on this opening night, his art out and on display for this season. Evelyn was a charming delight.

3
The OMMA Maine Gallery
with a picture view to the Gulf of Maine,
everyone standing on a beautiful new
wooden floor, taking in the food,
art, and cell phone calls.

4
Art is Where You Find It
Performance art in the main gallery by
a performer standing next to me.

5
First Art School Drawing
Henry Strater (1896-1987)
Charcoal on laid paper
Collection of OMAA

"Artist and collector Henry Strater purchased land in Ogunquit formerly owned by Charles Herbert Woodbury, who is widely credited with founding the art colony in the village. Initially founded by Strater as The Museum of Art of Ogunquit, the institution was incorporated in 1951 with a mission for 'the broad educational interests of the public.' Strater commissioned architect Charles S. Worley Jr. to design the building it is housed in. The museum opened its doors to the public in 1953." -source Wiki

7

Untitled (Sailboat)
William Thon (1906-2000)
Mixed media, circa 1965
At OMAA courtesy of a private collector

8
The Witchery of the Moonbeams
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927)
Oil on canvas, circa 1906
At OMAA courtesy of a private lender

Ogunquit Museum of Art label paragraph:
"The title comes from a 1901 novel by Roy Rolfe Gilson, When Love is Young, which includes the following lines in chapter thirty-eight: . . .'and now and then he plucks a flower and gives it to her -- sweet-petaled eloquence of what he cannot speak -- and now she turns her eyes to him, shining like stars, while all about her is the witchery of the moonbeams and in his soul the witchery of a dream.'"

Rev Roy Rolfe Gilson (1875-1933) was a newspaper man then a novelist and then a rector of parishes in New Hampshire, Maine and finally St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Salisbury, Maryland, where he passed away at the age of fifty-eight. When Love is Young was his first of eight books and many short stories, its first line, "School is out." You can read it online via Ohio State and Google HERE.

He said of this book: "The best known of my works is, and is not a child's book, but an attempt to preserve in words something of that exquisite loveliness of the American home as it has been in its simplicity, and never more beautiful than when seen through the eyes of a little child, to whom the father is a hero and the mother a heroine, and even the toy soldiers have an identity and name...
It is never the bizarre or unusual that makes me wish to work, but the poetry and comedy in everyday life, in the common lot...If my stories are idyllic, it is not because I wish to write pretty things, but because I have a friendly eye for those secret quests on which we pass each other disguised in foolishness, but wearing beneath a lovely raiment of dreams." 

9
Three Sails on Blue
Katherine Bradford (1942- )
Oil on canvas, 2006
At OMAA courtesy of Monica Dominak

Herðubreið in the Clouds

Herðubreið í Skýjunum /
Herðubreið in the Clouds

English:
Óli stopped so I could take yet another photo of Herðubreið, such a good friend, while we were on the lava desert of the Highlands. We were on the way to Askja on August 6, 2010. I painted this in April 2019. 17" x13" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, Prismacolor waterproof fade proof ink, and wax resist on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper. This painting was also juried in for the 19th Annual Regional Open Juried Show at the Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, US in 2019. Framed, $900

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

Íslenskur:
Óli stoppaði svo ég gæti tekið aðra mynd af Herðubreið, svo góðum vini, á meðan við vorum í hrauneyðimörkinni á hálendinu. Við vorum á leiðinni til Öskju 6. ágúst 2010. Ég málaði þetta í apríl 2019. 17 "x13" (b x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, og Winsor & Newton vatnslitir, Prismacolor vatnsheldur blek og vaxþol við 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaður grófur 100% bómull extra hvítur vatnslitapappír. Þetta málverk var einnig dæmt á 19. árlegu svæðisbundna opnu dómnefndarsýningunni í Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, Bandaríkjunum árið 2019. Innrammað, 120,000 ISK

 

 

Storm Shaped Highlands

Stormasöm hálendisform /
Storm Shaped Highlands

English:
I snapped a reference photo in the Highlands along the F910 road east of Askja on August 6, 2010. I painted from it in April 2019. 17" x 13" (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, $900

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

Íslenskur:
Ég tók tilvísunarmynd af hálendinu meðfram F910 veginum austur af Öskju 6. ágúst 2010. Ég málaði eftir það í apríl 2019. 17 "x 13" (b x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, og Winsor & Newton vatnslitamyndir og Uniball vatnsheldur blek, 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaður grófur 100% bómull extra hvítur vatnslitapappír, innrammaður, 120.000 kr.

 

 

Model as Spring

Model as Spring

at our Art Group in Kennebunkport, Maine
painted April 19, 2019
7" x 10" (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.
Arches cold press rough 100% cotton watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $145.00

I Row, I Paint

I Row, I Paint

a selfie rowing in the Bjarneyjar
archipelago in Breiðafjörður Bay, West Iceland
on June 5, 2005, painted April 17, 2019
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
NFS

Island Sheep Eat

Eyja Sauðfé Borða /
Island Sheep Eat

English:
I took a reference photo on the morning of June 28, 2005 of my island neighbors, three sheep on Heimaey Island in the Bjarneyjar archipelago in Breiðafjörður Bay, West Iceland. It was a solo human five weeks stay. In April 2019, I painted them. 16" x 12" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Prismacolor waterproof fade proof archival ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper. This painting was also juried in for the 19th Annual Regional Open Juried Show at the Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, US in 2019. Framed, $900 USD

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

Íslenskur:
Að morgni 28. júní 2005 tók ég viðmiðunarmynd af nágrönnum mínum, þremur kindum á Heimaey í Bjarneyjareyjaklasanum á Breiðafirði. Þetta var fimm vikna sólódvöl. Í apríl 2019 málaði ég þá. 16 "x 12" (b x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam og Winsor & Newton vatnslitamyndir og Prismacolor vatnsheldur blek á 140 punda Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaðan grófan 100% bómull extra hvítan vatnslitapappír. Þetta málverk var einnig dæmt á 19. árlegu opnu dómnefndarsýningunni í Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, Maine, Bandaríkjunum árið 2019. Innrammað 120.000 ISK

 

 

Perkins Cove Rock

Perkins Cove Rock

looking north from Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, Maine
painted with a Plein Air Painters of Maine group
plein air on April 11, 2019
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 fine grain 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $115.00

One-and-a-Half Pair...

One-and-a-Half Pair
in April Snow

Three Coscia pears (Pyrus communis) as snow falls
on my freshly snow-covered porch railing
on April 9, 2019, painted April 10, 2019
10" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and
Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness
and permanence, wax resist and Uniball waterproof
fade proof ink on 140 lb. Arches rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including tax and S&H $185.00

Lichen on Torfey Iceland Study 4

Lichen on Torfey
in Breiðafjörður, Iceland Study 4

during my five weeks solo Island stay
on June 26, 2005, painted April 6, 2019
20" x 14" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness
and permanence, wax resist, and Prismacolor archival acid-free
lightfast ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $385.00

Lichen on Torfey Iceland Study 3

Lichen on Torfey
in Breiðafjörður, Iceland Study 3

during my five weeks solo Island stay
on June 26, 2005, painted April 6, 2019
20" x 14" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness
and permanence, wax resist, masking fluid, and Prismacolor
archival acid-free lightfast ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico
cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $385.00

Lichen on Torfey in Iceland Study 2

Flétta á Torfey á Breiðafirði númer 2 /
Lichen on Torfey in Breiðafjörður Study 2

English:
Lichen on the rocks on Torfey island in Breiðafjörður. This is the second painting of a series of five paintings, based on a photo taken during my five-week solo stay on the island. This reference photo was taken on June 26, 2005, and painted in April 2019. 17" x 13" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, wax resist, masking fluid, and Prismacolor archival acid-free lightfast ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed, $900 USD

For sale at the forthcoming watercolor show with Óskar Thorarensen and Bruce McMillan, Reykjavík og Víðar / Reykjavik and Beyond, May 28 - June 22, 2022, Ófeigur, Skólavörðustígur 5, Reykjavík. After that Bruce McMillan's watercolors online here if still available.

Íslenskur:
Flétta á klettunum á Torfeyju á Breiðafirði, þetta er annað málverkið í röð fimm málverka, byggt á mynd sem tekin var á fimm vikna sólódvöl minni í eyjunni. Þessi tilvísunarmynd var tekin 26. júní 2005 og máluð í apríl 2019. 20 "x 14" (b x h), Daniel Smith , Schmincke Horadam og Winsor & Newton vatnslitir, vaxþol, grímuvökvi og Prismacolor blek, 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico kaldpressaður grófur 100% bómull extra hvítur vatnslitapappír, innrammaður, 120,000 ISK