ct Your painting must be based on the theme, Seashore. The painting you submit must be painted specifically for this project and be watermedia. Submit your images to me via email or snail mail. Send title, size, and comments about the paintings and painting process. Let me know if it is OK to link your email address when I add your image to the project page. The project end date is June 30, 2007.
Carol Prentiss
"When We Were Young"
Since I live on the sea shore, it provides
a gallery of ideas and snippets of life. When I was a little girl, my day
dream was building sand castles on the sea shore. I didn´t see the ocean
in real life until I was 25. It captured my heart and now that little girl
is waiting for her friend to come and help her build the sand castle. Painted
on Montval 140#, Pentel paints and a #12 round. 4" x 8."
Rich Stedman
"Untitled"
I decided to give this theme a go even though
we are in a land-locked state!
I was wanting to try a mixed medium here with transparent watercolors and
using Casein for white. I do like how it worked out, looks better than Chinese
white or white gouache. Not as good as saving the whites of the paper but
now I know I can use it for emergency use. It is on a scrap of Arches 140#
about 6in x 8in.
Randy Emmons
"Deception Pass Bridge"
This is the northern way onto the Island I live on. I have painted this dang bridge over and over from a variety of angles and they have always landed in the trash can. The Seashore Theme was an excuse to go at it again. So I jumped right on it. I painted it 3 times, this time, before I settled for this one. It still has areas I would like to do over but I know from passed experience that I may do those things better next try, but other things will be wrong instead. I painted on a 15x22, 200 Waterford CP. I have been using a modified Jean Dobie Palette.
Judith Silver
"At The Water's Edge"
In an experiment with watercolor on Yupo, this woman appeared almost as if by magic, sitting . The painting measures 9 x 12.
Roberta Loflin
"Beach Memories"
I was challenged to do another painting. This was done thinking of how I felt when I saw the New Jersey beach for the first time. The waves seemed enormous to me and very frightening. Our art guild (www.laag-site.org) just received a donation of 3 cartons of art books and I just finished reading two books by Guy Lipscomb and Lawrence Goldsmith that encouraged people to experiment. When I started this painting I used masking fluid but before it started to dry, I sprayed it with water and loved the effect it gave in the waves.
Chris Roberts
"Untitled"
Hi Maury, painted on 300gm paper,flamborough lighthouse,on the east coast of england, have used a bit of white acrylic on the lighthouse itself.
Carol Berning
"Sunset"
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in the project. I am a beginning painter, starting with watercolor, and I haven't found my style yet. I'm experimenting with a variety of styles. This is a project done with poured color. I used Arches Cold Pressed, 140 lb. paper. I poured red, blue, and yellow onto wet paper. Then after the paper dried, I found a good section and added the boat silhouette and gulls. I scan some of my paintings, and then I create note cards using Microsoft Publisher.
Barbara Van Nostern
"Early Morning Beach Stroll"
I'd like to enter the seashore project. Here is a painting I just did from a snapshop I took on Maui one early morning. A mother and children strolling the beach enjoying the water, light breeze and sunshine. It was done in watecolor full sheet.
Ray Annino
"Untitled"
I've attached my contribution to the Seashore project. I have previously painted this guy as a distant figure in a beach scene in one of my web gallery shows. I decided this time to do it as a closeup view. This guy is not the avid sea bass fisherman that I am used to seeing on the beach. I think he is just using the term as an excuse to get out of the house and relax.
Charlie Morison
"Ship Yard at the Outer Banks"
This is a painting of a ship yard on the Outer Banks. Again I put little dabs of color here and there to indicate things happening. I also tried a river scene in Wisconsin but decided to go with this one.
Debra Holmes
"Untitled"
I would like to enter my first painting. I painted Block Island Lighthouse one of my Dad's favorite places to visit. We would sail there (usually in the fog!) almost every summer from Long Island, NY. It is painted on Strathmore 140 cold press. Thanks for your time you spend on this project.
Bonnie McBride
"Untitled"
Here is my first painting for your project. I do not normally paint landscapes, but this project intrigues me, I am a fairly new watercolorist, still in 'training mode', though I believe we can spend a lifetime learning the craft. I find my escape from the real work in my art, and go there as often as I can. The painting is 1/4 sheet 140 lb aquarelle using W&N paints. Thanks for the oppportunity to submit.
Steve Hughes
"Moonrise Over Amelia Island"
Here's my submittal for the Seashore project. The painting was inspired from some of the many scenes and experiences we had while vacationing at the Amelia Island Plantation in NE Florida last week, not to mention the great view from our room. Painted on 140# cold press, 7"x10", with a Windsor Newton spit box.
Richie Gunn
"Fall at the Seashore"
Fall at the seashore. 12 x 14 painting limited
palette windsor paints. View of Connecticut shoreline in the fall painting
extracted from a photo reference Itook years ago. My goal was to use wet in
wet and drop in colors on the main body of shore. The sky and water was drybrush
and light lifting for effect, single stoke shoreline blended.
This was a fun project.
Syeda Afrukhtah (Rippy)
"Melancholia"
Hi, this is my painting on seashore.
Georgina Jones
"Moon Rocks"
This is my third attempt at painting a seashore.
I had fun doing this one...especially the moon(?) rocks. I used Jack Richeson
140lb rough and Winsor Newton paints. Had to use Titanium white....got lost
with the negative spaces.
Have a great day......Georgie
Frances Tooni
"Untitled"
Here's my june submisson for ocean watercolor.
Jeni Smith
"Untitled"
Here is my first submission to your site which
I love checking out. The painting is from a photo Itook on the beach at night
in Sanur Bali where I live. It is 6x9 inches and I used W&N paints and
coleman student paints.
Unfortunately when I took the masking fluid off the chairs the paper tore
a little so that was disappointing but I did enjoy the process a great deal.
Dorothy Wagner
"A Michigan Lake"
This is a painting of one of Michigan's many inland lakes. It was a beautiful Spring day when I painted this, with only a slight breeze in the warm air.This is a small (7 by 10 inch) plein air painting on Arches rough paper, using Winsor-Newton paints. Thank you Maury for another watercolor challenge.
Fran Grilli
"It's a Fish"
My painting is 7" x 10" on Arches 140 lb, CP, W.C. block with Holbein paints. Thank you for a good learning experience.
Penny Thompson
"Fishing the Northern Waters"
This is my submission for the Seascape Project.
It is a rendition of a photo I took of a fishing trawler off the coast of
Vancouver, British Columbia while on vacation there. It is entitled "Fishing
the Northern Waters" and is painted on 140 lb. Arches Paper and is 12"
X 9". I was much bolder with the colors than I normally use but I did
like the results. Thanks again for a fun project.
Sherry Thurner
"Caribbean Rainbows"
This painting is larger than I usually work, 15X20 inches, on 140 pound Strathmore paper, Windsor Newton paints. The whole thing was darker than I intended, and I wish I had placed the dive boat higher. Still, I think the rainbows turned out pretty well.
Suzanne Farmer
"Untitled"
I painted this at the very beginning of this project and almost didn't submit it (lack of confidence). I haven't been painting for very long and this is probably my best work so far. It is painted on Watercolour Board and measures 22" x 15". I used Windsor & Newton paints. I tried to capture the sense of solitude I have when walking along an empty beach.
Cathy Joerger
"Morning is Breaking"
This painting of the Oregon coastline is 5 X 14 on Fabriano 140 lb paper - using Winsor Newton, Daniel Smith and Schminke watercolors. This was a fun project - thanks for bein' out there!
Frances Toon
"Simpson's Reef"
Here's my submission. it's the 1st time I've done this and am glad I did. The painting is of 'Simpson Reef' out of Charleston, Or. I started painting last year. I'm in a wheelchair w/ms and watercolor painting is the best medicine I have ever found.
Cindy Smith
"Untitled"
Living in Kansas City, I was having a hard time coming up with inspiration for a seashore painting. I recently returned from a trip to Italy, where I studied art for a month. I decided one of my photos from Venice might qualify as a seascape. The canals are saltwater after all. :) While in Venice I saw the Sargent and Venice exhibit and am inspired by John Singer Sargent's paintings.
I used a variety of blues (Cobalt, Ultramarine, Prussian, Cerulean, and Turquoise) and greens (Veridian, Hooker's, Olive) with the addition of Quinacridone Burnt Orange and Burnt Sienna on Killmanjaro natural paper (140# CP) 11" x 15".
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