Latest Shoreline Painting by P.J. Cook and Watercolor Lessons Starting Wednesday

Shore View

New original painting offered with a beautiful gold frame. Inspiration for this painting is from the beautiful shoreline along Long Island Sound in Connecticut. There are still some undeveloped areas where the beaches are untouched. This is an original acrylic painting 20 inch by 20 inch with a overall size of 26 inches with the frame. Painting can be viewed and purchased at Aritsans Harbor, 188 Main St. in Old Saybrook, CT. Wed - Sat from noon to 5pm and Sundays 10:30- 2pm.

New Watercolor Lessons starting this Wednesday May 16, 2012 from 2:30 - 4:30. Watercolor classes are held at Artisans Harbor, in Saybrook, CT. All levels of artists are welcome. There will be 6 classes held once a week on Wednesdays. Various techniques, tips and tricks will be taught as the students follow along as I demonstrate a new technique each week.

If you have any questions please email at pj@pjcookartist.com
Thank you

"Winter Light" Watercolor Painted as a Demonstration in my Class

"Winter Light"

The watercolor shown here is a demonstration painting done at one of my recent watercolor classes. This painting is done using a pouring technique and then is finished with direct painting. The students worked along with me step by step while I was painting. Pouring paint is a different approach to watercolor painting and is usually new to people in the class and can be a lot of fun.

My next class starts Jan 14 through Feb 18, 2012 at Artisans Harbor in Old Saybrook, CT. Contact me via email through my About page here on this blog or Artisans Harbor directly 860-388-9070.

New Watercolor Classes Start Soon - Come and Learn Something New, It's Fun!

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A six week watercolor class is starting on Sunday afternoons September 26, 2010 in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. The lessons will be held at Artisans Harbor, 188 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT. All levels welcome, beginner to more experienced.
We will start with some basic techniques such as composition and continue with painting sunlight and shadows and charging paint to enhance the color in your paintings. We will be painting different subjects and may paint on location here in Saybrook.
For more information on supplies and price of classes contact Cheryl at Artisans Harbor 860-388-9070. Hope to see you there,
PJ Cook
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First Steps In Painting a Watercolor of the Florence Griswold Museum

I have picked my color scheme for the watercolor of the Florence Griswold Museum. I want to use all transparent colors so the paper will show through and be more luminescent. My colors are new gamboge, raw sienna, brown madder, indigo, alizarin crimson, winsor red, sepia and winsor blue. I may not use all of these colors in the painting. I used a grey for the sky and the new gamboge for the flowers. I chose grey for the sky because the yellow house will pop more with a grey background. The green is Winsor blue and new gamboge mixed together. At this point I am keeping things loose in the foreground flowers.


I use the new gamboge for the museum and tone down the color with brown madder and raw sienna. I continue using mixtures of indigo, brown madder, winsor blue for the rest of the nuetral shades. I have started adding some of the architectual details on the building and the background trees.

I will continue painting, covering less and less of the painting. This is called painting short. The more glazes used usually means less of the white of the paper will show through and the painting will be less transparent.