Sons of Turner 2011: Booth Bay, Maine - Day 3

Day 3: Popham Beach, Maine

Popham beach is an hour or so drive south of Boothbay Harbor. It was here that we noticed that just about everything we wanted to is an hour or so away.

We arrived at the beach and noted that we would not be able to do what we intended to do until low tide.... We left the beach in search of food and found the oddest/coolest little farm that was basically a hippie compound. they served organic sandwiches and were in the process of making an earthen kiln for baking bread. Did I mention the loose chickens running amok...?

After our luncheon adventure we headed back out to the beach. At low tide (approx. 1pm) the beach forms a land bridge to an island a short walk off the coast. We walked out to the island and even had to carry a few SoTs across the water - specifically MBK and Diana Terry...

We had the island to ourselves and went to work painting and sketching in the most majestic display of the might of the ocean I've ever seen.

The waves were breaking against the edge of the island shooting foam and spray into the air...

Andrew Day was inspired to paint a lovely view of the ocean and a lighthouse on a distant island...

Diana kicking back on a piece of driftwood...

MBK working hard on capturing each and every wave...

We got so swept up in the moment that we nearly lost our land bridge back to the main land. We did have to walk through waist high ocean water as it came back in. Frigid....

We made it back, but we made MBK and Diana cross the water themselves. We had a glorious day. Probably my favorite day of the week.

Sons of Turner 2011: Booth Bay, Maine - Day 2

Hello friends! I am writing this from the cafe inside Rock City Books and Coffee in Rockport, Maine. The place we're staying that I mentioned in my past email "Bold Colorful Life" (yes, that is actually it's name...) boasts a wi-fi signal throughout the home, but the reality is that it is completely unreliable at best. That said, I have not been able to do daily updates as I was hoping, so these next few entries are all being done at once and will serve as truncated versions of the last four or so days...

Day 2: Camden, Maine

Camden is about an hour or so drive north up Highway 1 from Boothbay where we are staying. the town is very affluent and has a beautiful harbor area. I was able to get a nice painting out of the afternoon spent there on the waterfront as well as a nice sunburn... boo for me ><

Sons of Turner 2011: Booth Bay, Maine - Day One

Hey guys - coming to you from the dining room of Booth Bay, Maine where the SoT are spending the week. Things are cold and grey here so hopefully it'll brighten up a bit, but so far the experience is quite unlike the previous trips to Santa Fe or Savannah. Maine is totally unique in that regard.

The Dining Room. This is the main area we're hanging around in. The table top is a repurposed barn door that is over 200 years old. Wow....

The kitchen is an open room that is part of the dining room. It's a great place to prep the food for the evening meals since there are two sinks and a gigantic island in the middle of the room.

The Great Room. It contains not only the telescope and the baby grand piano, but also an entire wall of books varying from Stephen King to Voltaire and Neruda - a completely eclectic collection.

It also has this lovely double-bass. It needs tuning, but perhaps I could figure out how to play it a bit...

The town is very touristy and thus the shops are open at odd times. Since it's not summer yet, the shops are sparsely populated. There is a lovely dock to walk along which offers a great view of this section of the bay.

The town is built on a ridge that slouches out to the bay and thus curves and twists in unexpected ways. The roads do not always lead you where you'd think they would and so you end up walking over and around buildings that seemingly pop up out of nowhere at the end of a small road.

The dock area was brutally windy today. Every time I attempted to find a place to sit and draw or paint the wind would make it impossible to do so. I was able to take a few photos of some things I'd like to work on in the future so it was not a total loss for today.

The tide here can rise and fall dramatically. As you can see in this photo taken at low tide that the water level can rise nearly as high as the walkway above.

This is basically day one out and about in Booth Bay. Tomorrow may take us to another location around the area. I'll keep you posted...

Caleb

Hollow

"Hollow" by Daniel's Window

www.danielswindow.com

www.thehollowproject.com

I'm finally finished with this project. It's been sitting here on my hard drive waiting for the final few song mixes to be finished before I bothered finishing up the artwork. The duplication company Disc Makers requires both the audio and the artwork to be submitted simultaneously, so I had to sit on it for a while. Suffice it to say I am really pleased with the final product.

Each of the images is a single panel out of the complete booklet for the project. Since most people are buying .MP3's these days, the CD booklet is streamlined to show only the most important info and the rest is available online. This is also designed to be an eco friendly Digi-Pack which is packaging that has no plastic tray or booklet sleeve and instead is an all in one type package. It's pretty cool.

This artwork will also be published in the upcoming Hollow Project art book (title yet unknown) to be released in September/October. Details to come...

The CD will be available on iTunes, the band's website, amazon and more.

Wither

*6"x18"

*Watercolor, Gouache, Ink

*Rives BFK paper

This is the completed version of my earlier WIP (several posts ago). I started this image nearly a year ago and set it aside after about 2 hours of work. It wasn't until recently I decided to finish it. I was struggling with completely conceptualizing it when I began and wanted to sit with it before jumping full force into it. Suffice it to say that after many more paintings and drawings I was inspired to complete this one and I am very glad I did. It is one of my favorite paintings I've ever done and am thrilled with how it turned out.

Conceptually, my purpose for painting this one was to show that physical beauty is temporary at best. Our culture is constantly telling us how to look and often at the expense of our character. We are so focused on looking "right" that we begin to judge others based on our own insecurities. This painting is all about the eventual death of our physical beauty. We all grow old. We all get wrinkly. We all sag and most of us will get fat.

And that is perfectly ok.

If we spend all of our time obsessing about our physical appearance and forsake our inner being, the one we will never lose no matter how old we get, we are truly and unavoidably ugly. Hopefully you can see that in this work of mine.

Bill the Dog

A dog named Bill.

This is a commission for a friend's fiance of her dog Bill. I used a limited palette of Burnt Sienna, Yellow Ochre and Payne's Grey. I wanted to retain a painterly feel for this one so I kept the lines light (2h pencil) and put the ink away.

Desire Sketch Card

My finished version of the WIP from yesterday's entry.