Mary Rose O’Connell

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Mary Rose O’Connell is best known for her dynamic oil paintings of the New England coast. Other genres she has mastered are her sensitive portrait, still life, and landscape paintings. She paints in her studio and en plein air in a representational style. Classically trained in the Boston School Tradition, her work shows a strong grounding in composition and design combined with the color and light of the 19th century Impressionists.
Along with being a national award-winning artist, Mary Rose was a past recipient of the Charles Family Foundation, Cape Ann Museum, Copley Society of Art Fellowship. Mary Rose is a juried artist member of the Copley Society of Art, the North Shore Arts Association, and the Rockport Art Association. She has exhibited with the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionists Society, and the Allied Artists of America.
Mary Rose instructs students in composition and design techniques using oil, acrylic, gouache, and drawing mediums. In addition to the technical aspects, the classes focus on color, value, and edge relationships within the paintings. She conducts workshops throughout the United States and in Europe.
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Mary Rose is recording videos as we speak and they will begin to populate this page as they are recorded. Mary Rose expects to be fully live on Epiphany Fine Art by January 2025. Once Mary Rose has finished recording her initial set of instructional videos, she will continue from then on to add new videos every month. Thank you

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Part one: Block in and layout
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Part two: As the painting develops care is taken to compare the value shapes, color temperature, drawing and edges.
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Part three: Finishing the painting.
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Part one: We begin by creating an abstract design of value and color shapes, as well as edges. While keeping the design in the lead.
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Part two: As the painting develops care is taken to compare the value shapes, color temperature, drawing and edges.
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Part three: Continuing the development of the painting
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Part four: finishing the painting
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Part One: Blocking in the design.
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Continuing to Develop the composition. Be more thoughtful as the painting develops as to improving the design and color relationships.
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Finishing the composition.
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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Bass rocks. Underpainting with Transparent red oxide and gamsol. This creates a blueprint for design, values, edge relationships. One bristle brush and Viva paper towels. The underpainting dries ...
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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Bass rocks. Underpainting with Transparent red oxide and gamsol. This creates a blueprint for design, values, edge relationships. One bristle brush and Viva paper towels. The underpainting dries ...
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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...
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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...
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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...
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Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...
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Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...
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Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...

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The Basics

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Part one: Block in and layout
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Part two: As the painting develops care is taken to compare the value shapes, color temperature, drawing and edges.
3 views
Part three: Finishing the painting.
3 views
Part one: We begin by creating an abstract design of value and color shapes, as well as edges. While keeping the design in the lead.
2 views
Part two: As the painting develops care is taken to compare the value shapes, color temperature, drawing and edges.
3 views
Part three: Continuing the development of the painting
2 views
Part four: finishing the painting
5 views
Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Bass rocks. Underpainting with Transparent red oxide and gamsol. This creates a blueprint for design, values, edge relationships. One bristle brush and Viva paper towels. The underpainting dries ...
4 views
Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Bass rocks. Underpainting with Transparent red oxide and gamsol. This creates a blueprint for design, values, edge relationships. One bristle brush and Viva paper towels. The underpainting dries ...
3 views
Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...
4 views
Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...
4 views
Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Pemiquid rocks. A small pencil sketch is advisable to determine your design. I used structure lines without any details. The lines are an integral part of this dramatic composition. Start to sdd color ...

Mary Rose O’Connell
Seascapes

Still Life

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Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...
3 views
Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...
4 views
Pumpkins can be tricky to paint. In this video I will show from start to finish how to paint a pumpkin in a still life. Use a slight neural green mixture with Gamsol (OMS) to quiet the white of the canvas. Using a darker color make structure lines to ...

Mary Rose O’Connell
Still Lifes

Painting Winter

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Part One: Blocking in the design.
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Continuing to Develop the composition. Be more thoughtful as the painting develops as to improving the design and color relationships.
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Finishing the composition.

Mary Rose O’Connell
Painting Winter

Using Gouache for Sketching

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Using Gouache