Quiet Connections acrylic on canvas 30″ x 30″
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Quiet Connections
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The bright side of Covid.
Well, May is here and hope springs eternal. I did take advantage of the long periods of time I had to think and paint. Thinking is the biggest and most important part of creating art. While I do know that painting can be challenging and even frustrating it is a […]
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Skips’ Famous Maine Workshop , June 19-25 and/or June 26-July 1, also July 10-16, and/orJuly 17-23, 2022
You may be asking, after viewing my paintings, why am I going to Maine and not painting boats and rocks. I understand the question. In 1974 when I taught my first workshop in Maine I did paint the Pemaquid Point Lighthouse with seagulls and surf. I could not […]
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Exhibit of Recent paintings by William (Skip) Lawrence at the Delaplaine Art Center
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“Marks & Gestures” by Skip Lawrence 30″x22″ mixed media on paper
price $1923 each The longer I think about making art the more I understand that there should be no rules about making art. For my entire life, I have searched for the secrets of making art only to come to the realization that formal answers are never going to […]
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Moments of Insight, by Skip Lawrence
Art is always changing, and our response to these changes is a portrait of what we do with evolution. In October of 2019, at the end of a workshop, I laid out a grid of 30 rectangles with the intension of making arbitrary marks inside each box. When dry, I covered […]
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Ideas Come from Thoughts
There is no such thing as a bad idea, only ideas that are not thought, reasonably tested, and acted upon. Initial ideas are generally thoughts that lead to more complicated ideas. The scenario oftentimes goes like this: I want to paint, what will I paint, how will I paint, […]
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Maine, Art, and Us 2020
Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, and Maine are all glistening on the horizon. Do not let the first three outshine the last, Skip’s Maine workshops. For information go to www.skiplawrence.com/workshops Pemaquid Point-An abundance of beauty for inspiration and painting subject matter. The village of Round Pond, is within minutes. […]
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Painting Light and Shadow in Watercolor, by Skip Lawrence
Painting Light & Shadow in Watercolor now has a page on the Echo Point web site; the url ishttps://www.echopointbooks.com/painting-drawing/painting-light-amp-shadow-in-watercolor. www.echopointbooks.com For all who have requested were to get my, out of print book, here is the information. The publishers did an outstanding job. I hope you will enjoy the […]
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Students work Maine workshop 2019
Student work from Maine workshop 2019 Barbara Chapman
