Showing posts with label fishing boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fishing boats. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

PAP-SE Workshop in Charleston SC - Part 2

 photo of the Shem Creek marsh I completed on Thursday afternoon

     For Day 3 we returned to Shem Creek to watch the very entertaining Larry Moore create one of his famous boat scenes from the dock.  He is a master of drawing lines that follow the rules of perspective to create believable weather-beaten fishing boats.

Larry Moore explaining hard/soft edges and the warm/cool vibrations of color temps.

     Each of these three masters imparted so many wonderful techniques to use.  It is now our duty to study and paint, paint and paint some more!

     It was exciting to meet so many PAP-SE members at the Wet Paint Show on Friday night which showcased all their efforts that they created all week long.  Their beautiful paintings were in three different galleries along Broad Street.  Again it was so exciting to see their beautiful creations in person.    

      This workshop was a great excuse to reunite with four friends.  We had taken a workshop in Atlanta back in 2012 and this was a good way to reconnect with them and spend some good ART time with them. We ate our way through Charleston and sampled the delights at Magnolias, Slightly North of Broad, Vickery's, Water's Edge and Eli's Table.  We even made a late-night run to River Street Sweets near the market for some pralines!

     It was an incredible week and I am so blessed to have had this experience.  It was exhausting but SO MUCH FUN.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Bobbing Along

Bobbing Along
Oil
12"x12" 
$325.00


     This painting will be one of my two entries that I will submit for a juried Guild of Charlotte Artists show this coming weekend.  The show will hang at Christ Episcopal Church Gallery here in Charlotte for the month of June.  My friend Renee spent a couple weeks in Italy this past Fall and she took hundreds of gorgeous photos and she has graciously shared her images with me. 

     "Bobbing Along" was done completely with a palette knife which is a tool that I really enjoy using.  This past February, I took a workshop in Atlanta with Leslie Saeta, and of course, we painted boats which is one of her favorite subjects.  So for this upcoming show I decided to do another boat palette knife painting.