Walk at Rachel Carson Preserve (Photos)
My hand gravitates to pointillism, and the dots and dashes and stripes of new buds and leaves fascinate me, and are great photo references for painting.
Maine
Friends on the Beach (Photos)
After a day of painting, it felt good to walk on the beach. I really enjoyed these people, fellow blog readers of yours.
Laurinda O’Conner Pastel Workshop in Maine (with Photos of Student Work)
We are so grateful for all Laurinda gave us in her bubbly way, with notans, underpainting techniques, and challenging us with incorporating neutrals with our brights.
Five Pastel Paintings I Painted this Week in Maine
Maine is a very varied place and has endless subjects to paint!
Community Shellfish from Maine (with Video Seafood Recipes)
Bob is a videographer who has videoed some great seafood recipes. They are available online, and I wanted to be sure to share them with you.
Photos of Student Work (Adventures in Abstraction Maine 2022)
Everyone did a great job and there were plenty of great ideas to discuss and appreciate. Don’t you love it all?
My Workshop in Maine and What They Said About it (with Photos)
I loved being with these wonderful women and am so grateful for their marvelously receptive hearts!
Monhegan Island: Hike Through Cathedral Forest to Squeaker Cove (Photos)
I loved being surrounded with compositions and textures, trees and rocks, moss and roots, surf and sky. See in this post the vignettes I relished on this fabulous hike.
Monhegan Island: Rain, Galleries, New Friends and Food
The food and sense of community on Monhegan are wonderful and overcame the downer of bad weather.
Monhegan Island: Lobster Cove (Photos)
We enjoyed ourselves at Lobster Cove, surrounded by compositional shapes and great texture.
Monhegan Island: Hike to White Head and Burnt Head (Photos)
The photos in this post provide not only a record of our wonderful hike, but are reference photos and compositional ideas for future paintings.
Arriving on Monhegan Island (Photos)
Three artist friends and I journeyed together to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine to hike and plein air paint together.
I’m in this Pastel Only Show at the Saco Museum in Maine
Check out in this post the paintings from the Pastels Only international show at the Saco museum in Maine.
Libby’s Tree (Plein Air Landscape from Creative Arts Camp)
I was videoed doing this piece; I’ll let you know when the timelapse is ready.
Artist-in-Residency (Day 1 Creative Arts Camp 2022)
These are my photos from my first day of my artist-in-residency at Creative Arts Camp on a gorgeous peninsula on Long Lake in Maine.
Fellowship Point (Book Review)
I really liked this new book (just out in July 2022), although it started slow and took a long time ramping up.