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Quissett Harbor, MA by Susie Morrell

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Last day plein air painting took us to "The Knob" , located in Woods Hole, MA

with spectacular views of Quissett Harbor.

It replicated a European fishing village port with it's many anchored colorful boats and buoys. It was a beautiful sunny crisp day. You can see the painters setting up in the distant left. I arrived early and took tons of reference photos in the morning light. It's fun to explore the points of land that jut out into the sea so I took a quick bike ride/walk to the very tip of "The Knob" before returning to set up and choose a vantage point of the harbor.

"Buoys" by Susie Morrell

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Arriving in Falmouth.MA with a half day to mull around before the start of the workshop I felt compelled to drive all the way to Provincetown... who knows when I'll be back and that little stretch of land curling into the sea was just too irresistible!

Bike on the bike rack and navigator on I started off. 30 minutes into the drive a sidetrack stop at Isaiah Thomas Books, a charming pink house with the sign reading "old and rare books" I always head for the art section and didn't I find a wonderful biography of Philadelphia artist, John Sloan ~ perfect! The 1-1/2 hour drive was pretty solitary through dunes and marsh. Then the contrast is striking... suddenly you arrive to a bustling seaport village full of activity. People walking shopping gallery hopping, outdoor cafès, cedar shingle architecture everywhere, sounds of fog horns, seagulls, street musicians playing. I parked and took off on my bike to enjoy the atmosphere all the while
thinking "pinch me am I really here!"

then the rain.... oh well... time to pause and eat. Seeing 'lobster roll' sandwich signs everywhere I asked a local where to get the best. He suggested here:

and he was right! it was unbelievable!

so I waited out the rain ...

a bit damp and chilled I was glad to have thrown a bottle of merlot in the car last minute so headed back to the Inn to enjoy a glass of wine and my new found John Sloan book and three days of oil painting ahead of me. Life is Good ~

~more on the painting in the next post~

"Tranquility" by Susie Morrell

I met the most wonderful artists at a recent workshop in Cape Cod instructed by Leslie Saeta and Margaret Sheldon hosted by Linda Collins at the Museums on the Green in Falmouth, MA.

There is nothing I needed more at this moment in time than an inspiring courageous group of women who traveled from all over the country for the same purpose filled with the same passion... capturing the essence of the Cape and communicating it through oil paint. In our breaks from the easel, we gathered at the quaint pubs for wine and the best lobster rolls on brioche buns you can imagine. The best part is hearing the stories of each artist and the journey that brought us all together! I'll post more of the trip and paintings in the days to come.

I took a TON of reference photos.

This is one of the boats (many boats!) in the harbor at The Knob near Woods Hole

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"Front Approaching"

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