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Inspired by Winslow Homer’s Storm Paintings

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We were at Acadia National Park in Maine this past August. It happened to have been a beautiful day, with perfect blue sky and exciting surf, but for several days the coast had been hit by the remains of a  hurricane.

I was immediately reminded of the much darker storm scenes painted by Winslow Homer near his home at Prout’s Neck, Maine. I’ve always admired Homer’s seacoast paintings, especially his storm scenes: waves pounding on dark rocks under a dark sky. The scene we saw at Acadia that day seemed much cheerier but nonetheless was just as scary. The Park Service wouldn’t let visitors get too close too the sea that day because tragically, the day before several people had been pulled to their deaths into the ocean by a rogue wave.

Tags: landscape painting, Maine, oil painting
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The sketchbooks of Fabrice Moireau. Oh, and mine too.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

On a trip to Mexico, I took along only a sketchbook, a brown and a blue Pilot water-soluble marker and a watercolor brush. I had discovered that if I did a line drawing with the markers, then I could go back with water and a brush and make washes out of the lines. It was a very simple and lightweight solution, and it gave me a chance to practice my Spanish as well, which I’d been studying for a few months at that point. I didn’t want to spend more than 15-20 minutes per drawing.

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