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

 

Lichen on Torfey Iceland Study 1

Lichen on Torfey
in Breiðafjörður, Iceland Study 1

during my five weeks solo Island stay
on June 26, 2005, painted March 30, 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 #3 graphite on
140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $385.00

Note: To see the location of this and what it was like during my 2005 five weeks solo stay
on the Bjarneyjar archipelago in Iceland click HERE

Spruce Shadows on Snow

Spruce Shadows on Snow

on fresh snow by my home
on March 23, 2019, painted March 30, 2019
7" x 5" (w x h), Payne's Gray Winsor & Newton
watercolor, selected for light fastness
and permanence on 140 lb. Fabriano
Artistico cold press fine grain 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping, $115

Minneola Conversation 1

Minneola Conversation 1

The first study of two of Minneola Tangelos
on a bank of new snow by my home
on March 23, 2019, painted March 25, 2019
20" x 14" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness
and permanence, #3 graphite, and wax resist on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping, $350

Minneola Tangelos by Others

The Art of Minneola Tangelos
in oil and acrylic by various artists
 

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Three Tangelos
Anthony Enyedy, American, California
Oil on canvas, 40" x 30" (w x h), Sold
Artist's web site HERE
 

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Two Tangelos
JoAnn McNeely, American, Illinois
Oil on panel, 2011
Artist's web site HERE
 

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Still life with Minneola
Jos van Riswick, Dutch
Oil on panel, 8" x 5" (w x h), Sold
Artist's web site HERE
 

4
Tangelo on Blue
Bobbi Heath, American, New England
Oil over acrylic, 4" x 4" (w x h), 2016
Artist's web site HERE
About this demo HERE
 

5
Green Shadow
Sarah Sedwick (1979- ), American, Oregon
Oil on canvas, 8" x 10" (w x h)
Artist's web site HERE
Artist's blog HERE
See the stages of this painting HERE
 

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Minneola Tangelo
Jana Bouc, American, San Francisco Bay Area
Oil on panel, 6" x 6" (w x h), 2009
Artist's web site HERE
 

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Tangelo and Slice
Jason Walcott, American, California
Oil on linen panel, 5" x 7" (w x h), 2016
June 2016 Monthly Giveaway
Artist's web site HERE
 

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Tangelo Tangelo Tangelo
Pamela Hunt Lee, American
Acrylic on canvas, 7" x 5", $100, Sold
Artist's web site HERE

 

Minneola Conversation 2

Minneola Conversation 2

Minneola Tangelos on a bank of new snow by my home
on March 23, 2019, painted March 27, 2019
20" x 14" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness
and permanence, and Prismacolor archival quality acid free
waterproof fade proof ink, and wax resist on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
$550 USD framed including tax and shipping

Model Nodine Study 1

Model Nodine Study 1

at our Kennebunkport Art Group
painted March 22, 2019
5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light
fastness and permanence, and #3 graphite on 140 lb.
Fabriano Artistico cold press fine grain 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $115.00

Model Nodine Study 2

Model Nodine Study 2

at our Kennebunkport Art Group painted March 22, 2019
5" x 7" (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, including sales tax + shipping $115.00

Boating into Sun

Boating into Sun

at Cape Porpoise Harbor, Kennebunkport, Maine
on February 22, 2019, painted March 20, 2019
7" x 5" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $115.00 SOLD

Susan Abbott Painting Provence

The Art of Susan Abbott is in a new digital book

In 2015 I studied watercolor with Susan Abbott in both the Bahamas and Vermont. She became a mentor and friend. Two of her oils and two of her watercolors hang in my home. She's an accomplished painter in watercolor and oil. This, below, is one of her recent paintings spotted online that I see as spectacular. It works on so many levels exhibiting her fabulous technique.

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Landscape Painters
Susan Abbott
This watercolor can be seen in Susan's essay,
Job Description, on her web site HERE
Susan's just published a digital book.

Painting Provence
by Susan Abbott
183 pages
Kindle Edition / Apple iTunes Edition

Susan Abbott's visual tour through the vineyards, markets, villages, and lavender fields of Southern France, painted plein air in the Luberon Mountain region near Gordes and Roussillon. With 140 oil and watercolor paintings, as well as her insightful essays about this unique place, she takes you to her vision of the Provence she's traveled to for the past twenty years.
Ten chapters encapsulate her vision of Southern France: On the Table, Market Day, In the Village, Lavender, Stones and Walls, Trees and Quarries, Fields and Farms, Skies, Vineyards and Orchards, and Vistas. Each chapter opens with a brief informative essay by her.

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Looking Through
to Mountain Views
Watercolor, 11" x 16" (w x h)

4
Fields Near Gordes
Watercolor, 20" x 14" (w x h)

5
Woman in the Apt Market
Watercolor, 12" x 16" (w x h)

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Market Stall, Provence
Watercolor, 12" x 9" (w x h)

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French Color
Oil

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Rows of Lavender,
Twilight, Provence
Watercolor 16" x 10" (w x h)

Available at:
amazon (Kindle) HERE (with a preview)
Apple (iTunes) HERE
You can see paintings from this book for sale HERE.
20% of the painting sales are donated to the Vermont Land Trust.
Susan's web site HERE

Out Fishing

Out Fishing

a dinghy moored in Cape Porpoise
Harbor in Kennebunkport, Maine
on March 1, 2019, painted March 20, 2019
7" x 5" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100%
cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $115.00

Buoys from the Sea

Buoys from the Sea

at the Cape Porpoise Pier in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 1, 2019, painted March 18, 2019, 12" x 9" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper framed.
$1,4o0

Buoys from the Sea was selected to be in the University of Maine's 2024 Maine Agricultural Calendar for the month of August.

Buoys from the Sea was judged into the Maine Gallery, Wiscasset, Maine Show Working Maine, July-August, 2023

Unloading Lobster Traps

Unloading Lobster Traps

at the Cape Porpoise Pier
in Kennebunkport, Maine on
March 1, 2019, painted March 15, 2019
12" x 9" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $195.00
 
Technique - About that Texture
 
You only see the texture in certain areas, not the sky, not the lobsterman, etc. The rough paper helped make it possible using the high bumps of the paper and wax. I rubbed a clear wax paraffin crayon over the lobster trap area before painting the colors. The wax covers the high points of the paper. It resists water, hence watercolor, producing the textured highlights.

I picked this technique up when looking closely at a John Singer Sargent painting at his major MFA show in Boston. He used rough paper a lot. You can use any clear paraffin. Sargent probably used a clear wax candle. He used wax resist a lot, quite a lot, reflections, highlights.

I've also used it to make a rope line in water. Just the wax line makes the rope. And I've used it when painting oranges, the rough peel's highlights. Also, you can layer the wax with layers of watercolor colors, alternating the wax and watercolor to resist only that color thus not layering and creating another color leaving the bumps with the color already present.

Wax resist is different from dragging your semi-dry brush lightly over rough paper. When you drag a semi-dry bush over rough paper the whites are the valleys of the paper, watercolor hitting the high points of the paper. But with wax resist the textured whites are the tops of the paper's bumps.

Paraffin wax crayons are available at Dick Blick. They say Susan Scheewe Wax Resist Sticks but then ship Grumbacher Resist Sticks, same thing, $4.49 for four wax stick crayons. But any clear wax will do.

Low Tide Done

Low Tide Done

a lobsterboat, 32 Below, Monkey Town, departing the Cape Porpoise Pier in Kennebunkport, Maine on March 1, 2019, painted March 14, 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, framed.
$300 - SOLD

Winter Still Scene

Winter Still Scene

in Shapleigh, Maine on Feb 14, 2019, painted March 13, 2019
12" x 9" (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. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $195.00

Friday Model Study 3

Friday Model Study 3

at our art group in Kennebunkport, Maine
on March 8, 2019
9" x 12" (w x h), using Naples Yellow,
Pyrrol Orange (both Daniel Smith), and
French Ultramarine (Winsor & Newton) for
the flesh, and Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine
(both Winsor & Newton) for the hair, selected for light
fastness and permanence, sketched with Uniball waterproof
fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper

Friday Model Study 4

Friday Model Study 4

at our art group in Kennebunkport, Maine
on March 8, 2019
9" x 12" (w x h), using Naples Yellow,
Pyrrol Orange (both Daniel Smith), and
French Ultramarine (Winsor & Newton) for
the flesh, and Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine
(both Winsor & Newton) for the hair, selected for light
fastness and permanence, sketched with Uniball waterproof
fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper

Friday Model Study 2

Friday Model Study 2

at our art group in Kennebunkport, Maine
on March 8, 2019
9" x 12" (w x h), using Naples Yellow,
Pyrrol Orange (both Daniel Smith), and
French Ultramarine (Winsor & Newton) for
the flesh, and Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine
(both Winsor & Newton) for the hair, selected for light
fastness and permanence, sketched with Uniball waterproof
fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $185.00

Fine Art Group
I'm always honored to be among the fine artists
in our weekly art group in Kennebunkport, Maine,
so many accomplished styles as seen
in last Friday's session.

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Friday Model Study 1

Friday Model Study 1

at our art group in Kennebunkport, Maine
on March 1, 2019
5" x 7" (w x h), using Naples Yellow,
Pyrrol Orange (both Daniel Smith), and
French Ultramarine (Winsor & Newton) for
the flesh, and Burnt Sienna and French Ultramarine
(both Winsor & Newton) for the hair, selected for light
fastness and permanence, sketched with Uniball waterproof
fade proof ink on 140 lb. Fabriano Artistico cold press
rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper
framed, including sales tax + shipping $115.00