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Monhegan Island inspired paintings
I recently spent 5 days on a small island 12 miles off the coast of Maine with a group of 13 other artists. It was an impulse purchase/decision I made at the end of January, and might be the best thing I’ve decided to do so far in 2015.
I started some 9 pieces, mostly acrylic, but a few watercolors, too. Day 1 resulted in this:
Here are the three most finished pieces: Blue, Bluer, and Bluest.
(the progression of) Blue
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Bluer
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Bluest
A few new paintings
Maybe keeping better track of what I make when is in order. I’m not sure when I made these other than it’s sometime since October. Yeah, we’ll say these are from October 2014. Or November.
MORE Monsters
Wow – these are late to the internet…. These are from October 2013.
Bethany & Alexis made these:
And I made these:
Art night had one unintentional collaborations night in 2012, and these paintings came about (albeit a year later) because I had more paintings to use up, more paint, and a couple friends who missed out on the first monsters evening. Original inspiration came from these folks.
Day 14 — acrylics and some stencils
This idea is sound, though my execution requires darker paint – or at least paint that is significantly different than the bottom layer. I will try again on this canvas later this week.
Base coat (here I was painting over a previous attempt at something or other):
Apply stencils:
Paint over stencils:
Remove stencils:
Day 13 — more acrylics
Attempt at a still life. Meh.
Day 9 — instant gratification
5″ x 7″
9″ x 9″
Day 6 — I like dots (and squares and pointalism)
Here is the painting I started yesterday and finished today:
Amber Waves
8″ x 10″
Speaking of paint……
I went to visit a friend yesterday morning and on the way back from brunch, asked to stop at a thrift store….. turns out that they were having a special event where everything was half off, and so we discovered….
I scored big and got these 28 tubes of that oil-hybrid paint (the stuff that you can thin/clean up with plain water, but somehow is still an oil paint) paint for just $12.50!!!! AWESOME.
Day 4 — More doodling in paint
11.75″ x 11.75″