Yesterday was the last day of my annual Boothbay Harbor Workshop. We went out to Ocean Point on a beautiful sunny day. I chose a familiar subject: the Clark House.
The flat, rocky shoreline was much longer than I made it. I chose to reduce it so that I could include a more interesting foreground of a large rock and a tree that helped frame my subject. Depicting every rock and ledge would have been self-defeating and detracted from the cottage. And looking over and past something led the viewer's eye to the cottage as well.
I always feel free to bring objects in the landscape closer, to eliminate distracting elements, and to enlarge objects in the foreground.
Thanks to my wonderful and talented students for a happy week. I hope you had fun and also gained some insights about painting techniques and procedures. Let's do it again next year!
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