Adieu Maine..

Last Maine post - back to Paris tomorrow/demain je te promis.

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Alison is my Maine food guide - provider of all the best, cheapest deals in the state of Maine -she could write a book. We go for the BEST seafood chowder on the planet - chock full of lobster, haddock, native baby shrimp. *Alison warns me not to order anything else until we have finished the chowder.

Naturally I pay no attention whatsoever and order a clam roll, but it was not quite as good as Rockland's Sharpie's roll, which I ate in haste and forgot to shoot :(
This is the view at the Harbor View in South Thomaston.
And the interior view - tres shackesque non? Some home-made tarts at a joint in Tenants Harbor.
Back to painting session last day with David Dewey. David has us look at Edward Hopper paintings.

The sky gets laid in first - yellow + blue.

Mixing up the grass greens on the palette - I'm heading out to buy some 'Leaf' green paint post-posting today. Absolutement

David lays in the grass with a lot of mingling of various colors wet-on-wet. Don't forget to tilt your paper PBers.
The finished painting looking fresh and airy as a Maine daisy.

I paint a back-lite scene on the spot.

Voila!

PB reader Kris Johnson, an artist, invites us to a grand opening that night at Mars Hall Gallery in Tenants Harbor.

The gallery is swarming with Maine's upper crust and the silver bowl is full of shrimp - what's not to love?

Kris lives in the unpronounceable, Castelnau Magnoac in the Pyrenees, France...
But her painting looks a lot like the view at Harbor View.
This is Kris' unpronounceable French dog, named 'Bleu'

That I can pronouce...

Paris a demain.

BONJOUR BLEU!