Winner
Finalist - Outstanding Acrylic
June 2010

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Today I am writing about a very exciting new chapter in my life.
You can read it at www.dennispoirierstudio.com
the link for my blog is on my navigation bar at the top.

Monday, July 12, 2010

I got an email today with the award from Boldbrush month of June contest.
The painting was sold at the Walsingham Gallery.
Very happy to have won the award. It is one of my favorite acrylic paintings.

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Summer Sailing

A new acrylic on panel 8 x 8".
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Marshes at Bufflehead's

It has been awhile since I have posted. Here is a new oil done in the parking lot of Bufflehead's restaurant at Hills Beach in Biddeford. The distant view is looking across to Biddeford Pool another of my new favorite summer painting locations.
For those who may be interested I have been setting up painting sessions with several students in these areas and also Cape Porpoise. I also have a weekly class at River Tree Arts on Wed. from 9am-12 noon. The weather has been great to get out to paint!
This painting is 12 x 16" in oils.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Morning at Arundel Wharf

This is a painting done on location while teaching my class for River Tree Arts in Kennebunk.
It is an oil on canvas 12 x 16". My next classes there begin on June 30,2010.
See my web site for details. My weekend classes are also in full swing so email for info.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Hazy and Hot -Mother's beach


Friday, May 07, 2010

Sundown at Stonington, ME


Chinese Vase and Flowers

A happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there.
This is an oil on canvas 16 x 12". Email for purchase info or visit my web site.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Buckwacka at Perkins Cove

This painting is an acrylic on panel, 9 x 12".
A lobster man and his boat on a warm spring day at Perkins Cove in Ogunquit, ME.

Monday, April 05, 2010

Port Clyde, Maine

Another small 6 x 6" acrylic on panel. This time Port Clyde, Maine.
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Spring in Salem, MA

This painting is a 5 x 5" acrylic on wood panel.
This is a new series of New England houses I have been working on.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

River Tree Arts class

This is some of my class at work yesterday in Kennebunkport, ME painting a street scene on a nice sunny morning.
More of the same this weekend with my three day workshop that starts here in North Berwick at 9:30am. I am teaching six sessions through Sunday afternoon. There are still a few slots open so call or email for info. We will be painting at Perkins Cove in Ogunquit in the afternoon session Saturday. Nice to have spring weather at last!

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

March Afternoon Light


Here is the painting after I stopped working at 4:20pm this afternoon. I had fun with that foreground color. It is very impressionistic in treatment. There is such subtle color right now.
It was sunny and bright but a little bite in the wind still. Spring is coming though and I had longer to work on this one then i would have last month at this time.
The painting is 16 x 20" in oils and the whole thing was completed on location .

Middle stages of Sunday's painting

This is a shot of a painting I had done on location with my class on Sunday in North Berwick. A really nice farm and landscape that I have enjoyed painting over the years.
This is how it looked when I returned to the location and before I began to work on it this afternoon.

River Tree Arts

Joan doing a really fine job on a 16 x 20 oil.
A very good day of painting.

Wednesday class for River Tree Arts


Here is Marina and Errin painting at Arundel Wharf in this morning's class in Kennebunkport.
A bit chilly but nice to be back outside!

Saturday, March 06, 2010

The Harbor Room in Gloucester,MA

This painting was sold this weekend. It is the Harbor Room in East Gloucester, MA.
It is an acrylic on panel 6 x 8". It was also featured on "Good Morning Gloucester " this morning. Thanks Paul! Always happy to paint Gloucester my old hometown. This was a view my friends and I stumbled on while looking for a location one cold day in early February.
I had added that image earlier in a blog. That painting did not work out and was destroyed. This one is much better and I may make a larger version of it.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Detail of Christina

I wanted to try a Vermeer like pose with the model near a window. The window was a large south facing on a gray overcast day. It was a steady cool light.
This is a close up of the face and some early brushwork.

A work in Progress


This is in the early stages of a painting of Christina in a kimono. The painting is 24 x 20" in oils on canvas.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Christina

A portrait I have been working on for about three weeks now. It is 18 x 18" in oils.


Monday, February 22, 2010

A Yellow Farmhouse

This is my painting after I had it blow off my easel and land face down in the weeds and dirt. After a little scraping with my palette knife (which also helped the painting...) it was fine.
It is a 12 x 16" oil on canvas panel.

Wind Gusts

Here are Erinn and Richard at work on Saturday afternoon off route 9 in North Berwick.
We had a windy conditions all afternoon.

Rodney painting on Sunday



Here is Rodney painting on Sunday afternoon at a farm on Morill Mills road.
Richard is in the background.

Richard painting


Here is Richard in deep thought about his painting. Either that or he had to close his eyes from a wind gust. We had a lot of that all weekend!

Morning Light on Lebanon Road

Here is the painting back in the studio. I have not worked on it yet, so this is all from yesterday morning's session from 9:30-12:30.

Photo of the scene Feb. 21,2010



Here is a photo of the scene.

Block in on Sunday Morning

Her is my block in for a painting done on Sunday morning as part of my three day workshop this weekend. We had sunny but windy conditions for most of the time but we all had fun.
This painting was done at the corner of Card Mill Road and Lebanon Road in North Berwick.


Monday, February 15, 2010

Up in the Back Fields


Here is the painting as it stands from the session. I will work it up a bit more in the studio.
I like the afternoon warm glow against the shadows and cooler tones in the foreground. It has a subtle color range.

Sunday's location


This is the location for Sunday's painting. It is the same farm from Tuesday but way down on the other side of the property up against the tree line.

A blocking in


Another wind chill day on Sunday but temps were a bit warmer around 35 so it was only a wind chill of 24 or so. Gusts at times were pretty rugged. We chose to stay near a tree line to help block the wind. It worked for most of the time. Again Richard was out on location with me.

Back in the Studio


I made some changes back in the studio. I decided even though the branch was broken on the tree in the foreground it was an awkward way to paint it. I decided to give it back some life and added another branch or two. I cleaned up the edges and design of snow in the middle ground and refined the trees more.
I worked for about an hour and a half in the studio.

Through the Trees

This is my painting on the easel at the location looking through the trees at the Segal Farm.
In the studio I decided to make a few changes away from the location.
The painting is 20 x 28" and I worked for about three hours on this one.

Another location

This is the afternoon painting location over in Wells. Here is Caleb working on his painting.


Saturday, February 13, 2010

Feeding the Gulls

This painting is a small 6 x 8" acrylic of Wells beach in the winter .
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Cape Ann Artists



That is my long time friend Caleb Stone painting with me on location yesterday in North Berwick. A glorious winter day for painting. Started out at around 20 but temps got up to near 40 by mid day.


February 9th the morning painting...

That's me on the top of the hill painting the morning light yesterday in North Berwick.
The painting is 18 x 18" .

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

February Sunshine 16 x 20" oil on canvas

This is the final version of the painting worked up a little more in the studio without the wind chill! I refined the trees and decided to lower the value in the foreground area. I worked a bit more on the design in the shadows and some edges needed to be softer on the driveway.


Monday, February 08, 2010

Richard



This is the only brave (or crazy) student to paint with me yesterday: Richard Schmid .
I liked his comp better than mine actually because of his slower lead in with the driveway curve. Different concept and better result I think.
A tip of the hat to a new member of the hardcore winter painters group.Good job Richard- the other Richard Schmid would be proud of you.
I am from Cape Ann and have always been crazy to be out in the cold.We are just brought up that way down there... Always trying to bring in new members to the club ,ha,ha!
Outdoor sessions continue every Sunday afternoon from 1-4pm. For the indoor people who want to stay warm- Saturdays from 10:30-1:3opm in my studio and I have a wood pellet stove.
Three day winter workshop coming up Feb. 19-21 (no indoor class that weekend -sorry unless it rains or snows of course)
Paint all day for three days. See my web site for more info:
www.dennispoirierstudio.com

Stage two

Here is the stage pretty close to the end. the setting sun would make the foreground shadows creep across and force the light back up on the house.

Early stages


This is early on in the painting but I wish I had moved the house up and had a slower line leading in. Now it has to become a tree study. A little uncertain of the concept was the problem here looking back on it. I almost painted more sky so I could feature the trees height. That may also have been interesting.

Wind chill Sunday Feb. 7th


This is the scene for yesterday's painting in Wells, ME.
Wind chills were a factor making it feel like 10 degrees or so.

Sunday, February 07, 2010

Last Light at Stonington

This painting is an acrylic on canvas that I have worked up from a small study called Warm Glow, Stonington" a 6 x 8" acrylic that is currently in a show at the Copley Society of Boston.
This larger version is 24 x 30" and will be shown this summer at the Blue Hill Bay Gallery in Blue Hill, ME.


Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Harbor House, East Gloucester 14 x 18"

And this is the painting at the end of the session. Back in the studio I may refine some edges and work it up a bit more. Not really sure that comp on this one works that well, but it is a nice color study anyway. It was a nice mood in the late afternoon. Of course I would like to have seen more snow...

Mid way stages

Here I have worked up the storage shed on the right and the curved roof and sharpened the tree shadows across the roof. Soon the cloud cover would move in so I was happy to get the shadows in before that.

The Block In



My canvas was 14 x 18" and I began to block in with simple warm and cool colors of the right values. I liked the shapes of the roof lines and the warm distant hills of Gloucester.

View at the Harbor House

This is where some friends and I worked yesterday in Gloucester. Two artist friends of mine, Caleb Stone and Chris Coyne and myself set up at the top of this view on a little side street in East Gloucester.
Sunny and cold to start but clouds came in later in the afternoon.


Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Olde Woolen Mill

This is the final version of the Mill painting after a bit of work in the studio refining some edges and working up the drawing more.
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Eastern Shore Line

This painting is in acrylic and is a 6 x 6" on panel.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Ready for the gallery

This is the final working of "Winter Afternoon at Segal Farm". I added the cattle and just refined some of the edges of the trees and shadows. This 25 x 31" oil will be on exhibit at the Walsingham Gallery in Newburyport by the weekend.


Photo of the Mill

Here is a photo of my scene. I was really hoping for a bit of sun but with the rains moving in, it was not to be. The overcast skies made the snow appear lighter than the skies, and it reminded me of one of my current favorite artists- Edward Redfield. A gray day in winter is a beautiful thing to paint.