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Showing posts with label David Dewey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Dewey. Show all posts
Thursday, August 12, 2010
I SINNED!
Yesterday I lost my RESTRAINT! And after being ice cream-free FOR SIX WHOLE DAYS too. I know I said August would be totally ice cream free for the whole month, but who/whom was I kidding?
Naturalment, I lay the total blame at the feet of Joe DiNapoli, fellow watercolor artist and Maine accomplice.
We met for lunch yesterday at this faux Maine-like-shacky restaurant, Mary's Fish Camp.
Joe ordered a GIANT-size cod sandwich, which I immediately coveted. Who wouldn't? 
I, on the other hand ordered first, the smallest Little Neck clams on the planet (equalling one bite total). Then I idiotically ordered Steamers equal to about 1 1/2 bitefuls.
Bien sur, all my neighbors ordered REAL food just like Joe. I meanwhile ate A LOT of Oyster crackers...hmmm
As we were walking up Charles Street, Joe said, "Next time I'll choose the restaurant. We shoulda eaten here!"
The entree prices are like half of an app at Mary's shack joint.
We stopped in Joe's and I shot a few of his paintings when he stepped out of the room...
Don't worry. One of his SIX guard cats kept a beady eye on me. HMPH
If you do not have compulsions to gobble up ice cream at the drop of hat, especially after eating a lunch totaling the size of a quarter, I suggest you try making your own. David Lebovitz' The Perfect Scoop is the one ice cream book to own word out. This book is off limits for moi, malheureusement.
Painting ice cream I can do.
Now I'm going to the pool to work off the 3,000 calorie gelato cone I ate yesterday.
I will keep you apprised of to my progress and ice cream regressions for the rest of August. That's a promise. 19 days to stay the course. Wish me bon chance.
Now I'm going to the pool to work off the 3,000 calorie gelato cone I ate yesterday.
I will keep you apprised of to my progress and ice cream regressions for the rest of August. That's a promise. 19 days to stay the course. Wish me bon chance.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Last Maine post - back to Paris tomorrow/demain je te promis. Do not unsubscribe svp!
Alison is my Maine food guide - provider of all the best, cheapest deals in the state of Maine -she could write a book. We go for the BEST seafood chowder on the planet - chock full of lobster, haddock, native baby shrimp. *Alison warns me not to order anything else until we have finished the chowder.
Naturalment I pay no attention whatsoever and order a clam roll, but it was not quite as good as Rockland's Sharpie's roll, which I ate in haste and forgot to shoot :(
This is the view at the Harbor View in South Thomaston...
And the interior view - tres shackesque non?
Some home-made tarts at a joint in Tenants Harbor...
Back to painting session last day with David Dewey. David has us look at Edward Hopper paintings...
The sky gets laid in first - yellow + blue...
Mixing up the grass greens on the palette - I'm heading out to buy some 'Leaf' green paint post-posting today. Absolutement!
David lays in the grass with a lot of mingling of various colors wet-on-wet. Don't forget to tilt your paper PBers!
The finished painting looking fresh and airy as a Maine daisy...
I paint a back-lite scene on the spot...
Voila!
PB reader Kris Johnson, an artist, invites us to a grand opening that night at Mars Hall Gallery in Tenants Harbor..
The gallery is swarming with Maine's upper crust and the silver bowl is full of shrimp - what's not to love?
Kris lives in the unpronounceable, Castelnau Magnoac in the Pyrenees, France...
But her painting looks a lot like the view at Harbor View..
This is Kris' unpronounceable French dog, named 'Bleu'That I can pronouce...
Paris a demain!
BONJOUR BLEU!
Friday, July 23, 2010
Who knew? I just made cupcakes!
This morning!!
Lemon-scented Blueberry cuppies with lemony icing.
Yay
I now bow down in sheer idolatry to all cupcake makers including Parisien bakers.
The TOPS!
Superb!
I don't think I've baked since Home Ec class...
Oh why didn't I get this cookbook in Paris...
I used Jiffy :(
But I got 'creative' :) I added loads of lemon zest and lemon juice and tiny Maine blueberries up the whazoo AND some Greek Fage yogurt to cut the sweetness of the mix.
We're having our workshop luncheon today and I wanted to make a little surprise - mini cupcakes. No one else in my house was interested in pitching in.
"Don't forget to cleanup!", they reminded me.
HMPH...
They didn't refuse to taste-test the results.
Especially with the scent of lemony-blueberry wafting through the house...
c'est toujour comme ca
Back to painting - we went to nearby Port Clyde yesterday. The scene to be painted doesn't look like much?
David starts with a pile of clear water flowing on his 300 pound watercolor paper....
First color to flow down is yellowy...
Then a pile of cobalt + verrditerre + lavender blues are mixed on the palette... 
Then flowed onto the still-wet paper. Much tilting to and frow of the board spreads the wet paint around to get lovely atmospheric glowy skies. That's all there is to it!
Don't forget to leave some white dry paper for the clouds PB readers - I hope you're following along at home...
See, those accidental cloud shapes come in handy...
Voila! Fini!
Time for lunch! At Doug's Shack on route 131...
I almost forget to shoot my food - my half-eaten, VERY delicious, not too mayonaisey, crab roll.
Tessa (another canine workshop member - we are loaded with adorable hounds :) she says,
I almost forget to shoot my food - my half-eaten, VERY delicious, not too mayonaisey, crab roll.
Tessa (another canine workshop member - we are loaded with adorable hounds :) she says, "BONJOUR!"
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