Paines Creek Road

This is a different image of Paines Creek Beach from Paines Creek Road. It was another demonstration for The Cape Cod Museum of Art water-media class that I am teaching. Spring has arrived where there are hints of green in the grass and under growth. The anticipation of getting to the beach from this view of the water makes it all that more exciting! I love getting trees and grass overlapping the horizon line for a more interesting view. This happens naturally in this view becaue of the incline of the road. The image size is 20" x 12" and is painted in oil.

Wellfleet Sunset

Here is an acrylic painting that I did for a home stager who needed something with yellow for a new home in Wellfleet. The house has been sold.
I got back the painting and felt the painting was O.K. but it needed something. I asked my husband Mac (my best critic)for his help. He said to get rid of all the twig-like objects silhouetted in the foreground. He said that they were distracting . And they were! So with some paint and the paintbrush I painted over them. This is the advantage of acrylic paint. Wellfleet Sunset measures 40" x 23.5 ". It is framed in an oak color articulated frame because I have painted the sides of the canvas too.

The Red Door

Hello to all. Here is another watercolor that I did as a demonstration for my winter watercolor class at Cape Cod Museum of Art. As I write this blog, I hope to help the reader understand my thought process as I paint. I wanted to do a painting with reflections in it.
I always knew to make reflections one shade darker than what is reflected. But artist ,Charles Sovek taught me that the exception is black. Its reflection is one shade lighter.

I also wanted to paint a building to show that if you slope the roof a little in an older structure, that it makes it more charming. My architect husband taught me this. NEVER have it arching up! My greens are made with Prussian blue and lemon yellow without titanium nickel. And when I want to dull the green, I add a little cadmium red, but only a little in some places. I always add red to the green to the paper and never to the palette. This helps keep the greens from getting muddy!

"A View from North Dennis Road"

Dear Reader,
This was a demonstration in acrylic for my water-media class at The Cape Cod Museum of Art. The view is beautiful any time of year! I wanted to to show how the water is darker in the foreground because we are looking at still water. With running water, like the ocean or bay, the water is lighter in the foreground. I also explained how reflections in the water are a shade darker than what they are reflecting. The exception, that Charles Sovek explained to me is black. The reflections of anything black are a shade lighter. This acrylic painting is 20" x 16". I have two more paintings from this workshop that I will show on this blog as soon as I get them photographed. This past six weeks I demonstrated one week with oil alternating the next week with acrylic. This Wednesday I will begin teaching a new six-week class at the museum for all water-media students but I will be demonstrating in watercolor.

A View from Wing's Island

This is a 16" X 20" oil that I did as a demonstration for my water media workshop at The Cape Cod Museum of Art. If you look at a former entry on my blog, you will see the same view painted in watercolor. (I had painted the view for my workshop at The Museum of Natural History on Veteran's Day weekend,2007. I thought it would be nice for the blog readers and my class to see the same subject handled in different media. I will be teaching a third workshop at the Cape Cod Museum of Art starting next Wednesday, April 23 in case anyone is interested. The demos will be done in watercolor but acrylic and water-base oil students are also welcome.

Breakwater Landing on a Summer Day

Dear reader,
Here is another painting of a favorite spot of mine to paint. I painted this acrylic as a demonstration for my water-media class now going on at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis. This was a lesson to show how much more interesting it is to break the water line by getting down lower than the horizon to view subject and/or take pictures.
I also wanted students to think about where their light source is coming from. Here the right side is shadowed while sun shines on the side without the fence.

Spring Bouquet

Spring is here!!! I painted this watercolor a couple of years ago and it is now on notepads sold here at the gallery for $5.
Jeff O'Brien from O'Brien Printers has taken images from several artists and made 60 sheet notepads.
www.capecodnotepads.com On his website you can view all the images.
Artist Curt Rosser used to tell me to add a little yellow ochre
on white areas such as buildings, clouds etc. to warm them up. So you can see that I added the yellow to the vase. I use a lot of yellow ochre in backgrounds of still lifes.
Happy Spring!