Carol Douglas teaches painting and drawing in Rochester, NY and mid-coast Maine. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows in New York and elsewhere.
Rochester, NY
Joined July 2011
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Painting changes the way you see the world, from the dramatic colors of Zion National Park to the vast scale of the Grand Canyon and the beauty hiding in everyday scenes.
#PaintingChangesPerspective #LearningToSeeLikeAnArtist #PleinAirPainting
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Discover the ten things artists worry about most, from talent and color choices to failure and criticism, and learn what really matters when learning to paint.
#ArtistFears #PaintingTips #ArtistMindset #MondayMorningArtSchool
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Why do plein air artists take terrible photos of their paintings—or forget to take them at all?
#PleinAirPaintingPhotography #PhotographingYourArtwork #PleinAirPaintingTips
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Explore Kenneth Clark’s distinction between nudity and the artistic ideal, and how modern beauty standards shape the way we see the human figure.
#FigurePainting #TheNudeInArt #ArtHistory
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Is painting talent or hard work? Discover why patience, concentration, and persistence matter more than genius in learning to paint and becoming a better artist.
#PaintingPractice #ArtisticPersistence #MondayMorningArtSchool
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From tornado warnings and flash floods to thundersnow at the Grand Canyon, follow this artist’s wild plein air painting trip through Arizona, Utah, and Colorado.
#PleinAirPainting #OutdoorPainting #LandscapePainting
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A week of storms put the 22nd Sedona Plein Air Festival to the test. There are risks, rewards and financial realities in hosting a plein air event for a nonprofit arts organization.
#PleinAirPainting #OutdoorPainting #LandscapePainting
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Why do plein air painters end up covered in blue paint? A humorous look at oil painting, messy clothes, stained fingernails, and the hazards of painting outdoors.
#OilPainting #ArtistLife #PaintingHumor
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Learn how to mix beautiful, natural greens for landscape painting. Discover how light affects color perception and why varied greens bring your paintings to life.
#DevelopYourPaintingStyle #FindYourArtisticVoice #PaintingTips
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Learn how to develop an authentic painting style without falling into mannerism or caricature. Discover how observation, experimentation, and fresh decisions keep your art growing.
#DevelopYourPaintingStyle #FindYourArtisticVoice #PaintingTips
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Stapleton Park, 1877, John Atkinson Grimshaw
Discover the surprising colors of the night sky and learn how airglow, moonlight, and color perception influence painting nocturnes.
#NocturnePainting #PaintingNightSkies #LandscapePainting
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Learn how to improve your painting technique with deliberate brushstrokes, cleaner color mixtures and stronger lights and darks. Stop fussing and paint with confidence.
#PaintingTips #LearnToPaint #MondayMorningArtSchool
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What do great artists have in common? Not perfection. They observe closely, make deliberate choices, embrace imperfection, and keep painting until their work communicates.
#GreatArtists #ArtisticGrowth #PaintingTips
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A farm scene painted from observation and memory, blending a Berkshires barn with my childhood experience growing up on a New York farm.
#BarnPainting #PleinAirPainting #LandscapePainting
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Learn how to analyze a painting while you’re still making it using distance, squinting, design elements, value, composition, and focused questions.
#MondayMorningArtSchool #PaintingCritique #ArtSelfCritique
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What is a nocturne? Join me as I explore the meaning of nocturne painting, from Frederic Remington’s evocative night scenes to the challenges of painting darkness and atmosphere.
#NocturnePainting #PaintingTheNight #FredericRemington
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Explore three new winter painting classes: Cozy Winter Painting, Painting Figures in Real Spaces, and Painting Nocturnes.
#WinterPainting #OnlinePaintingClasses #PaintingNocturnes
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Learn to draw what you actually see instead of what you know. This simple drawing exercise uses abstract shapes to train observation and improve accurate drawing.
#DrawingTips #LearnToDraw #MondayMorningArtSchool
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Discover where to see Carol L. Douglas’s paintings this fall, from Maine art exhibitions and charity auctions to a national juried show in California.
#MaineArt #OctoberArtExhibitions #PleinAirPainting
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Discover Drawn to Creation: Two Views, a joint exhibition in Rockport, Maine, featuring Carol Douglas’s oil landscapes and Naomi Aho’s intricate pencil drawings.
#MaineArt #LandscapePainting #RockportMaineArt
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