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The Bangor Art Society Live and Silent/on-line Auction

The Bangor Live Auction took place on Friday November 13th, 2020 at the Eastern Maine Development Corporation with professional auctioneer Mark Bradstreet presiding. I sold one of my watercolors in this live auction and still have a beautiful painting that is available in the silent auction which will continue all this week.

To place a bid, you can either go to the Eastern Maine Development Center or call/text your silent bid before Friday to Teddy Jan Covell at 944-1986 or by texting/ calling me on my cell at 745-0071. I can also include your bid on the auction sheet.

If you are going to see the painting in person at the Eastern Maine Development Corporation at 40 Harlow Street, Bangor, Maine Bangor, Maine, please remember that People may attend at a 50 person limit, must wear a masks and practice social distancing.
 

The proceeds are as follows, 20% goes to the Bangor Art Society and 80% to Artists! Each artist has submitted up to two works, one for the live auction and one for the silent auction that ends this Friday. The size limitation for the silent auction is 11" x 14" Paintings and sculpture was accepted as well.

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I captured this image when traveling to Hudson over a number of days as I observed a mother pig and her piglet brood. It is painted in My studio using several studies and photographs. It is also painted on Arches 140 Lb Cold Pressed 100% cotton rag watercolor paper. I uses only Holbein pure watercolor paint because of the absence of ox-gall and other fillers. I also uses Daniel Smith pure earth and minerals colors. 
 

I was struck by this mother pig and her brood of piglets that were just off the road in Hudson, Maine. I would stop and watch them each day I passed by and eventually did studies and photos to paint them in my studio. I chose the composition with one of the piglets getting ahead of the mother and her gentle loving nuzzle in keeping him inline.

This is an watercolor painted study made in the studio in my pure and bold style of transparent washes. I use a descriptive stroke that describes lines of power, motion, and shape in describing the character of the the pig family, yet I try to paint with a subtlety that captures even the lightest veils of light. I painted this study on Arches watercolor paper and was able to achieve the color and the textural grain that is most prized by watercolor painters who have painted on this paper.

I am intrigued with the timelessness in change in my paintings. They show a love of color and light with emphasis on the expressive painterly mark and form, which evoke a recognizable feeling, a nostalgic memory, or even emotional qualities such as the smell of salt and balsam in the morning ocean air.

Hope you take advantage of the savings on these new paintings,

Michael E. Vermette