Blog

"Out to Choate Island"  15 x 22" Watercolor

I was honored to receive the Margaret Laurie Abramo Memorial Award in the Second Summer Show at the RAA&M for this watercolor, which I painted a while ago.  I began painting watercolor at Amherst College with Carl Schmalz, who became my mentor in painting and silkscreen printing. He would take us out for Plein Air painting on the campus and teach us to paint wet-into-wet to create excitement in our work.  His mentor was Eliot O'Hara, who founded the Goose Rocks Beach School of Art in Kennebunkport, Maine