April 29th & 30th, 2017 Rockport Art Association Workshop The purity of color mixing, the tactile quality and being able to capture nature’s surfaces in using a knife as your implement for creating will be a major focus in this workshop. Marianne’s years of experience painting plein air and a love of nature while spending…
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April 24th, 2017
April 24th, 2017 Birches, Gloucester Harbor Oil on Board, 18 x 24 in Another day with my great student who doesn’t seem to mind me painting too. There are tons of cranes by the water in Gloucester, they were too far away to fathom but very arresting regardless. The story for me was the tree…
April 18th, 2017
April 18th, 2017 Venice Oil on Board, 18 x 24 in Well I was teaching in studio and had nothing to paint, student offered me a stack of photos to look through. Although I don’t like working for the pictures, and particular not for pictures of the places I’ve never been, this one caught my…
April 4th, 2017
April 4th, 2017 Kenora, Ontario Lake of the Woods Oil on plywood, 18 x 24 in This I did in studio in Annisquam working from a photo I took a couple of years ago from the Island. My thoughts are forever escaping to my glorious northern home – in this case, I integrated the recent…
March 28th-31st, 2017
Showboats – Annisquam March 28th-31st, 2017 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in This was painted in studio in Annisquam, with reference from a photo and from the view outside of the river, boats and shoreline. It’s “Golden Hour” and the colors were so egregiously gorgeous I almost didn’t paint it. But of course, in…
March 23rd-25th, 2017
March 23-25th, 2017 Rockport, MA Oil on Canvasboard, 24 x 18 in The water here is a delicious, gorgeous emerald green at the depth you see in Rockport Harbor at high tide. I was looking towards Motif #1 but decided to leave it & almost everything else out. A vision of de-colonialized MA, with the…
March 20th, 2017
March 20th, 2017 Annisquam, MA Oil on Board, 8 x 16 in After taking the picture I fixed the distant fog a little so it doesn’t look as solid. The interest of this painting to me was the reflected light on the hull of the boat. I’m happy with the way it came out.
David Curtis’ Plein Air Saturdays
March 11, 2017 David Curtis’ Plein Air Saturdays at the Alleyn Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt in Essex, MA While David P Curtis is recovering from an illness this winter, he has invited me to get his Saturday group going again by having me lead it from time to time. Will post next date once it’s…
March 6th & 7th, 2017
March 6th & 7th, 2017 Oil on Board, 18 x 24 in Lake of the Woods I worked on this painting from a combination of memory and photo. The picture was taken last summer when the devastating Alberta forest fires were raging and even as far east as Kenora, Ontario the skies were full of…
February 27th & 28th, 2017
February 27th & 28th, 2017 Annisquam Oil on Board, 16 x 24 in Another done in studio while teaching. Had a 4 x 6 in photo and the view out the window for a guide.