December 12, 2023

Day Three and Final, "Narragansett Bay, 1864" by William Stanley Haseltine

I forgot to post last Thursday, but I finished working on this copy and turned in my permit. I know there's more I could have done to be closer to the original, but at a certain point I just stopped caring about that. What I was most interested in was the "geography" of the rocks in the landscape. This is something I deal with when I paint in Maine, so I'm hoping that by copying this painting, I'll be better able to "get" the Maine shoreline.


My next copy will be a Degas painting titled, "Before the Ballet". It's a unique composition, on an unusually proportioned canvas. I'm excited about it!

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