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HELD JULY 29, 2017

 Members participating were: DUSTAN KNIGHT,
SUSAN LEVENSON, MARILYN EIMON, ANN SAUNDERSON, AND JANICE WITTMER.

THANK YOU TO THOSE OF YOU WHO CAME, AND TO THOSE WHO TOOK ADVANTAGE OF OUR DISCOUNTED
PRICES AND BOUGHT SOME GREAT ART!

"Acadia Rain" 36"x42"

watercolor on panel

DUSTAN KNIGHT

“Acadia Rain” has gone through a couple of changes .It was a bit more conservative initially, I had a clearer foreground and I was hoping to get it accepted into the SPLASH watercolor publication. But alas…so I went back into it and took the foot off the brakes a little bit and it looks and feels much better to me know.

This challenge to create with a pure heart regardless of the expectations around me are tough. I have been reading Ed Betts' Master Class in Watermedia for the tenth time and he does a good job talking about creating for the sheer joy of it! He is inspirational!

"Hampton Beach 3"16" x  20"

Grey Day

"Hampton Beach 6" 16" x 20"

I have always loved Diebenkorn and listening to Mary Ruedig rave about the Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibit at the SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) intrigued me so I began my own “Hampton Beach Series”, after Diebenkorn’s “Ocean Park Series.

I was also experimenting with aluminum panels, which are pretty cheap these days, and no one knows what to do with them, here are a few from this new series. 

"Hampton Beach 5" 16" x 20"