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Bangor Adult and Continuing Education

I hope everyone is off to a great start in the new year! So far I have 20 students signed up for my two courses at the Bangor Connunity and Adult Education in Bangor, Maine. There is still room in both classes, and a little more space for the "Painting Portraits and Figures in oil" class with a little less than a week to register. The Watercolor class begins this next Tuesday, January 30th, 2024 and the oil painting class begins next Wednesday, January 31st, 2024, they both begin at 5:30 PM at the Brewer Educational Center. These will have all new lessons and will be a lot of fun to participate in. I hope to see some new faces as well as familiar ones too. For more information about registration, materials list and location, CLICK HERE for "Painting Portraits and Figures In Oil" and CLICK HERE for "painting Animals in Watercolor."

 I am very excited to paint with my students during these classes. "Hoisting Lobster Traps, Monhegan Island" is a recent oil that I will bring to the first "Painting Portraits and Figures in Oil" class. I'm workin on another animal watercolor that I will bring to the "Painting Animals in Watercolor" class. See you there!

New England Watercolor Society

"The Llamas Of Addison, Maine" the watercolor above, has been accepted in the 2024 signature member show of the New England Watercolor Society, hosted by the Guild Of Boston Artists on 162 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116. The show opens next Tuesday on January 30 and runs through February 25th, 2024.

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HOURS OF OPERATION:
Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30am to 5:30pm
Sunday 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Closed Monday

Here are the artists accepted into the show:

LIST of ACCEPTED ARTISTS

This list is sorted by Artist and their location (Town & State).
It may be used to help coordinate ride share opportunities or
the dropoff and pickup of art work.

A special Thanks goes out to Juror of Selection & Awards:

MICHAEL HOLTER

Michael is a signature member of The American Watercolor Society, The National Watercolor Society, The American Impressionist Society, The Watercolor Honor Society, The Southwestern Watercolor Society, The Society of Watercolor Artists, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, The Outdoor Painters Society, and several others.

His work has received numerous awards, been published in the North Light Books issues of Splash 16 through 21 and has been selected four times to the Fabriano (Italy) Water Media Exhibition and also the World Watercolor Competition in Taiwan. He was one of three US artists selected to travel to China in 2019 for the International Watercolor Week Exhibition and plein air painting activities in Shanxxi Province, Beijing, and Quingdao. He has been on the teaching faculty of the 2018, 2019 and 2023 Plein Air Convention and Watercolor Live 2020 and 2022. Michael has released four DVDs from Creative Catalyst Productions, 7 Steps to Landscape Painting in Watercolor, 7 Steps to Portraits in Watercolor, Watercolor Landscapes from Photos and Paint the Town.

A gift to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.

My double elephant watercolor, " Allagash Rangers Shooting Chase Rapids" has been bought by my patron and friend and will soon be gifted to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway superintendent's office in Augusta, Maine. This is a double elephant size watercolor that was painted on handmade J. Whatman paper gelatin sized specifically for watercolor paper that is rare to find, since they don't sell it anymore anywhere except through auction or in person from an artists own stock. Tragically, the recipe has been lost. The story goes, that they couldn't get men to stand in water all day to pull these sheets one at a time, so they went out of business. It was made in 1956 and bought in England by a father of an artist friend of mine who lives in Blue Hill. He bought a good quantity of it for his son and I bought it from him. The paper is simply extraordinary to paint on and I am enjoying painting on it immensely. The painting is framed under uv picture framing glass, has a 4" 8-ply museum board mat and a hand finished cherry wood outer shaker-style frame. More to come on this story with display dates and actual viewing location dates in Augusta, Maine.

Have the best creative week making art,

Michael E. Vermette