"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.