Quote

The way to understand art is to go and look at it. And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums ( Pierre Auguste Renoir)
"Art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to
accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study
nature and practice continually." (Edgar Payne, 1883-1947)

Friday, February 25, 2011

Cold weather brings warm colorful pastels

Linda Packard's Pastel class is in full swing this semester. Here are the paintings from this thursday.




Michelle - landscape



Class project = Pastel

Jean - finished pastel 

Rita- unfinished pastel painting

Gail - dogs in different positions

Carol - boats and bicycle


Carol - Lobster buoy





Liz - sketch of roof tops
Liz - roof tops  pastel
Priscilla - woman

Priscilla - cat


















Friday, February 18, 2011

Linda Packard's pastel class

I am catching up on my posting. I love getting these pictures from Carol and it gives me a chance to see what the class is doing.
Here is this weeks class results.
Michelle - Stones

Gail's pastel 

Priscilla - portrait

Charlene - bird houses

Rita's little dog

Valerie pastel landscape

Liz - the women

Carol - Hey You!

Gloria - landscape

Carol - Flat tire












February 11th postings

Wow, Linda Packard's class is getting so good. Wonderful paintings!
Michele - Rock of Age


Gail's landscape



Jean's pastel

Liz's portrait of Sandy


Liz - Water View

Carol - rockwall

Carol - portrait of Jack

Rita's Blue Heren




Carol - trees

Michelle - ink and Charcoal

Charlene's Monhegan Fish Beach

Priscilla - portrait















Thursday, February 3, 2011

After the Storm

Creativity emerges from the snow and cold and is evident in the resulting paintings in Linda Packard's Thursday's pastel class.
Water Lilies by Jean Townsend

Gail by Liz Donald

The Peasant by Liz Donald

Driftwood by Gloria Hodgon

Evergreen by Gail Hipsky

Grand Manan by Rita Haunert

1st House in Series by Rita Haunert

Surf at Mt Desert by Michelle Walker

Two Row Boats by Charlene Sirois

Woman Singing by Priscilla Ireland

Treelined Slope by Gail Hipsky