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Watch Me Paint: Doing well by doing good
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Friday, May 29, 2015. Doing well by doing good. Asticou Azalea Garden, designed with the financial support of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in the late 1950s. Earlier this month, financier David Rockefeller announced that he is giving a thousand acres of land on Mount Desert Island to the Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Rockefeller and his neighb...
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Watch Me Paint: You’ve got mail
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Tuesday, June 2, 2015. You’ve got mail. Hard to see how one can have a mailbox here. Where does it go? Since my husband had already field-tested my router in Rochester, setting up my internet connection was basically plug-and-play. That was a pleasant surprise for my overtired brain, which was expecting the usual scramble of crossed wires and endless holding for technical support.
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Watch Me Paint: Oh, happy day!
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Oh, happy day! Overlook at Olana, 9X12, by Carol L. Douglas. Sketch for south façade of the main house at Olana, Frederic Edwin Church, c. 1870, watercolor, ink and graphite on paper. Olana is not just your typical rich man’s confection of Victorian whimsy. It was designed by architect Calvert Vaux but the influence of the artist is apparent everywhere. In the ...
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Watch Me Paint: Holiday gift guide #4 (the gift of learning)
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Friday, November 21, 2014. Holiday gift guide #4 (the gift of learning). Sea and Sky Workshop. August 9-14, 2015. The Schoodic Peninsula is more secluded than the main body of the Park; only about 10% of park visitors ever get there. Its main feature is Schoodic Head, at 440 feet above sea level. There will be a lobster feast on Sunday evening, and all meals and snacks up to and includ...
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Watch Me Paint: Doggone brilliant
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Portrait of a Jack Russell. By Joaquín Sorolla (1909). A reader sent me this Portrait of a Jack Russell. By Joaquín Sorolla (1909). She knows I have an ancient Jack Russell and love Sorolla’s treatment of white and black. Some of the tones Sorolla used to make white fabric and dog in the painting above. Remember that color is composed of three characteristics:.
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Watch Me Paint: The genius of routine
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. The genius of routine. The Red Truck, oil on canvasboard, Carol L. Douglas. I believe that creativity rests less on freedom than on structure. I’m not the only person who’s discovered that genius requires discipline: from this Navy SEAL asserting that. Everything starts with making your bed. To Mason Currey’s. Daily Rituals: How Artists Work. I walk every day, un...
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Watch Me Paint: November 2007
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Monday, November 26, 2007. Plein Air Taos 2008. Taos, by Shelli Robiner-Ardizzone , 2007. I will teach plein air in Taos next June with Shelli Robiner-Ardizzone of New York. Here. Is some information about her previous trip to Taos. We will be sending materials out at the first of the year, but of course, if this trip is what you want for Christmas, contact me here. Jules Bastien-Lepag...
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Watch Me Paint: Receiving angels
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Monday, June 1, 2015. My studio. Clifford doesn't stay here but I have to remove some doors before he can be moved. Wish you were here. My business life, still shrink-wrapped. But I have a husband and children, and they have friends, and the combination got that truck loaded and out of Rochester. The problem was on the Maine side, where it was down to me and a crusty old codger who...
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Watch Me Paint: October 2007
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All images © Carol L. Douglas, Rochester, NY. No reproduction or reuse permitted without. Express consent of the artist. Wednesday, October 10, 2007. The Opium Eater, Addendum. A reader sent me two more images of languid women for consideration. Repose (Nonchaloire), John Singer Sargent, 1911, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Http:/ jssgallery.org/Paintings/Repose (Nonchaloire).htm. Again, look at the hands which bring tension into the pose. Tuesday, October 9, 2007. I wanted to begin this essay o...
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