Here is a seascape I did as a demo today.It is about three hours work. I also led the entire class through a seascape painting of their own I am exhausted. I am having a great time, but I am pushing really hard. I have a good group as usual. It seems that people who take workshops are a pretty good lot.
I hadn't planned to paint seascape with them, but we had a really gray day and it seemed like a good time to be in the studio. I have been painting seascapes for years but I have never taught it. I did the demo and they all wanted to try it. Some of them did surprisingly well. Seascape is the hardest thing I do.
I guess I could do a series of posts on seascape painting if there is interest out there in that. Let me know. I don't know that I am an expert in it, but I have done a bunch of them.
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ReplyDeleteI said... nice delta seascape, Stape!
ReplyDeleteYes Please Stapleton! Love your blog since I discovered it recently and am craving some seascape info... I'm getting ready to drive from PA to FL to paint along the Gulf beaches. Hope to take your Lupine workshop... THANK YOU!!
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Beautiful job. I live near the shore of Lake Erie, and paint there often. It's the shallowest and the most dangerous of the Great Lakes, and generates monstrous waves in high winds down from Canada. I would really like to see some posts on seascapes, or in this area, "lakescapes", in order to paint them better. The waves are a dirty brown, and are hard to paint in a complimentary manner.
ReplyDeleteThat's nice work, Stape!
ReplyDeleteI would enjoy a seascape thread. I was first inspired to start painting at a seascape exhibit in Rockland, Maine about 10 years ago. I have painted quite a few of them. And some of them didn't suck. Some did, so I'd like to learn what you know about it.
Thanks!
Stape,
ReplyDeleteGreat painting, can't beleive you did it in three hours, thats amazing. I would love to see some posts on sea scape painting.
All the best,
Todd
Gorgeous Stape!! Amazing job for only 3 hours! Would love to see more posts on seascapes. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt's a yes for me too on seascapes!
ReplyDeleteYes yes yes. Seascapes. Do some posts on seascapes. I love the painting and those clouds are great. I'm a cloud lover. Did you do this from your imagination?
ReplyDeleteI like the colors! Stape, your being too modest..
ReplyDeleteYour paintings are a treasure to the eyes.
Your wisdom is a magnet for the wanting.
I've learned more this winter, from you, than I have through all the 60's in high school!
What ever you post, it'll be a hit.
(You set the bar up high, and I like that!)
Can you tell me where I can get some Moxie!?
Gorgeous!! Ditto what everyone else said....3 hours? Blows me away. I too would love to learn the seascape scoop. I wish I could afford this painting.
ReplyDeleteYes, please tell us about seascapes!
ReplyDeleteYea Stape, all year your blog has unerringly hit my need, it's almost spooky if it wasn't such a gift. Amazing to me you could be so far away and so personally helpful. (so glad my grandaughter showed me how to find you!)
ReplyDeleteI am still driving 400 miles every weekend to paint the CA coast and we have decided to keep on til June! It has been a real struggle thank goodness I can draw well. A month ago I almost quit, your kind words of encouragement kept me going. My last few attempts have small bits that feel magical even though the painting flops.
I have been through the bootcamp of the forces of nature, am truely humbled and pummeled, my brush is ready for your wisdom! Terry
Yep... excellent idea Stape!
ReplyDeleteI'm signed up to stay at the Sunset Hill House for "Lupine World". Can't wait!
I've been out of the loop for awhile and too busy with life to paint, however I saw the wave on Facebook and HAD to come over and say very nice, I love it, and if you do a series on painting the sea I'll try and be here to read along, very nice.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job. Ambitious for a demo, but you pulled it very well.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful painting, Stape.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog -- read it every morning. I would love to see a thread on seascapes. Thanks for all you share with us!
Stapleton, I hope this is enough encouragement ?
ReplyDeleteThis is one great painting. I can see how everything you tell us about design would be so important in a seascape.
ReplyDeleteI would love to see series of posts on seascape painting, since I live by the coast and am to scared to paint it yet! The California Impressionists painted Laguna Beach a lot, not too far from me.
By the way, one other thing I would love to hear you post on is optical color mixing. Do you use it a lot, and how do you integrate it into your paintings? I have been learning about it and it is tough to do well!
What a beaut! That really has that Edgar Payne romanticism going strong! And beautiful motion in the splashing wave.
ReplyDeleteIf this is any indication of your seascapes, I'd say that you ARE an expert!
ReplyDeleteWow!! Nice job!!
ReplyDeleteHey Stape. I've been following your blog for a while but this is my first comment. I've learned a lot from you and I love seascapes, so like everybody else, I'd be thrilled to see a series of seascape posts. o_O
ReplyDeleteAlso, can you elaborate on why you think they are the hardest things you do?
Thanks again for your commitment and generosity in sharing your lifetime of knowledge free of charge.
-Peeter from Estonia
You may not be an expert, but you're certainly close! Very nice work. I too would enjoy reading your ideas on seascapes, even though I live in the high sagebrush desert.
ReplyDeleteGreat work as usual,love the Seascape! I talked about you today, I was at the Vose gallery and they had a terrific new show opened yesterday " Picturesque New England ",some new to me Aldro Hibbard.
ReplyDeleteStapelton, What ever happened to the seascape you did in Sugar Hill?
ReplyDeleteStape, this is so captivating! You really grabbed the essence of the sea! Love it!
ReplyDeleteThis is stunning! Wish you were closer, would love to take a workshop with you.
ReplyDeleteAnything you can say about the seascape thing is great. I will have my ear glued to the monitor.
ReplyDeleteThis seascape demo is slicker than the one you did for us at Snow Camp. Did the below freezing temperature nad the two hour time limit have anything to do with that. It is amazone what you did in that extra hour!.
It might have been Perrin. Just too long ago to be sure. The gallery looked as though the art was by many different artists but all were by the owner. Many different mediums in many different styles. Flabbergasting
ReplyDeleteDot;
ReplyDeleteThe surf is rarely that good here evidently.
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John
ReplyDeleteI will, thanks.
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Jim;
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Simone;
ReplyDeleteI will try to mail you some rocks.
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Todd;
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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Todd;
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Debbie;
ReplyDeleteThanks. If I can't do it in three hours, I can't do it.
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Barbara;
ReplyDeleteI will do it.
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Gregory;
ReplyDeleteYes it is only from imagination, no references.
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Bill;
ReplyDeleteYes, you can get Moxie anywhere in new England
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Yvonne;
ReplyDeleteSorry, its sold.
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Mary;
ReplyDeleteHi there, you have an ocean near you too.
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Terry:
ReplyDeleteThanks, thats a long way to go to paint a seascape. I applaud your effort.
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Woodward,
ReplyDeleteSee you there.
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Michael;
ReplyDeleteThanks.
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Becky;
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Cara;
ReplyDeleteThank you. I am happy so many of you have commented.
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Mary;
ReplyDeleteIts kinda unreal isn't it?
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Jeremy;
ReplyDeleteI guess I do that on a moderate scale. I can write about it.
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Kev;
ReplyDeleteThanks. Edgar Payne?
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Ann;
ReplyDeleteThank you.
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Karen;
ReplyDeleteWow , coming from you that is a great compliment!
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Peeter;
ReplyDeleteI will tell that when I write the posts on seascape.
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Nobody;
ReplyDeleteThanks, nobody likes my work!
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Nita;
ReplyDeleteThanks. The Voses are the greatest!
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Mary;
ReplyDeleteI turned it into a dessert tray.
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Love2
ReplyDeleteThank you too.
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Irene;
ReplyDeleteIf I were closer to where?
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Willek;
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to know what to make of an artist like that. You want to applaud his ability to do so many things, but you wonder who he REALLY is.
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That is a beautiful painting. You've got so many color notes going on. More, please.
ReplyDeleteSo many have already said it, but I'll add one more - YES on seascape posts!
ReplyDeleteThat's one gorgeous painting - one I would actually buy if I had ANY spare cash!
Sharon
Wonderful marina... It´s sooo beautiful I´m speechless....
ReplyDeleteWOW... just gorgeous...
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought you were a "snow guy"... Guess I should have known you could paint anything beautifully!!!