8. Watercolor Summer Excursion 2

Lesson
Written By Erin McGee Ferrell

Lesson 8: Town Landing Beach, Falmouth, Maine

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Plein Air Painting (Outside Painting) always requires flexibility and Ingenuity. A friend let me paint from her deck, use the wifi for my computer, and her covered hot tub became my table.

Let’s Start:

Go outside in your yard, on a porch, or by a window. It’s time to paint! In this lesson you will be with me in Falmouth, Maine on the Casco Bay. It’s a foggy summer morning so the usual blue sky and water are shrouded in mist. This provides a perfect environment for our class to learn watercolor Drip Techniques.

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GATHER YOUR MATERIALS:

  • Watercolor paint

  • brushes

  • watercolor paper

  • pencil

  • fine black ink pen

  • cup of water

  • paper towels

  • masking or blue painters tape

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Watch Video:

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Share Your Art:

Look at some of the paintings that students created from the lesson. Now upload your art to out Youth Studio Page. We all want to see it!

Student Gallery

Next Lesson Preview: Cousins Island, Yarmouth, Maine

Erin McGee Ferrell

Erin McGee Ferrell (b. Louisville, Kentucky, USA) is an internationally exhibiting visual artist whose practice centers on large-scale oil painting as a language of place, memory, and lived experience. Working at the intersection of figurative symbolism and architectural space, Ferrell explores how movement, land, and cultural context shape meaning over time. She received a BFA in Studio Art with a minor in African Studies from Mount Holyoke College and holds a Teaching Artist Certificate from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Her formation includes immersive study in Nigeria and Italy, grounding her practice in observation, material rigor, and cross-cultural awareness. Ferrell’s work has been exhibited internationally, with projects in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, and North America, including the Jeju Art for Earth Festival, World Art Dubai, and Bahrain’s Spring of Culture. She has participated in researchbased residencies with Columbia University, Arizona State University, and the National Cancer Institute. Ferrell lives and works in Louisville, Kentucky.

http://www.artistamerican.com/
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