Get a real job
Artists are catalysts for renewal and a powerful economic engine. David Blanchard and me, practicing being tourist attractions inside a tourist attraction (Camden harbor) yesterday. Dave had lost his Old Salt hat to the wind, but luckily it landed inside a dinghy. Photo courtesy Jennifer Johnson. We tend to think of the arts as intangible …
A sense of place
Everything that you paint should tell a real story, one that is authentic to you. Big-boned, by Carol L. Douglas. As soon as I finish my taxes, I’ll be back at the boatyard painting schooners. There is something about being in our favorite place that transcends detail. We know it by feeling rather than by …
Monday Morning Art School: the need for green
A fast, easy route to mixing plausible summer greens. Overlooking Lake Champlain, by Carol L. Douglas. Every green in this painting came from the matrix below. And, yes, there’s a scrape in it. It tumbled off a bluff. The need for green came early to class this year, paradoxically because it’s been cold this spring. …
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Seeing and re-seeing
Painting what you know, vs. what’s actually there. Spruces and pines on the Barnum Brook Trail, by Carol L. Douglas Yesterday I was visited by a filmmaker from Wisconsin. Patrick Walters is in Rockport for a workshop at Maine Media Workshops being taught by my pal Terri Lea Smith. I didn’t catch his name when he …
Intimations of mortality
You can have it all. You’d just better be prepared to work very hard. Clouds over Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory, by Carol L. Douglas. We did some icy camping here. I recently was rejected from a residency I really wanted, in Gates of the Arctic National Park. (Rejection is how these things roll, so don’t worry …