Mary Rose O’Connell

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Welcome to my video library. These videos explore my process for painting landscape, seascape, and still life paintings. The fundamental principles involved in building a painting are repeated throughout each lesson. The design, drawing, value, color, and edge relationships within the artwork combine to make a strong composition.

It has been a pleasure to demonstrate, teach classes, share ideas, and host workshops throughout the years. Presenting lessons online is a new venture for me and I encourage your feedback and questions.

I look forward to sharing more videos in the months ahead.

Warm regards,
Mary Rose

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 March 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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MARY ROSE O'CONNELL - OIL

February 5, 6:00-8:00 Eastern Time USA

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Live Seascape Demo (part 1): Composition, Design, and Underpainting

Please join Mary Rose for part 1 of this live oil painting seascape presentation as she demonstrates how to build a solid foundation for her composition, leading to a dynamic design. Attention is given to the relationship of design, drawing, value, and edges within the painting.

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MARY ROSE O'CONNELL - OIL

April 9, 6:00-8:00 Eastern Time USA

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Live Seascape Demo (part 2): Completing the Painting

Please join Mary Rose for part 2 of this live oil painting seascape presentation as she completes the underpainting she started in Part 1 of this series. Attention is given to the relationship of design, drawing, color, value, and edges within the painting.

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MRO-Introduction

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Mary Rose O'Connell welcomes you to her studio and new page on Epiphany Fine Art.

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MRO-Breaking Surf (part 1)

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Part one: Block in and layout

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MRO-Breaking Surf (part 2)

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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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MRO-Breaking Surf (part 3)

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Part three: Finishing the painting.

Seascape painting by Mary Rose O'Connell

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MRO-Front Beach (part 1)

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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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MRO-Front Beach (part 2)

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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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MRO-Front Beach (part 3)

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Part three: Continuing the development of the painting

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MRO-Front Beach (part 4)

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Part four: finishing the painting

Mary Rose O'Connell winter landscape painting

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MRO-A Winter Landscape (Part 1)

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Part One: Blocking in the design.

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MRO-A Winter Landscape (Part 2)

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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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MRO-A Winter Landscape (Part 3)

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Finishing the composition.

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MRO-Bass Rocks (part 1)

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Today we are going to paint a plein air scene at Bass Rocks. Underpainting with Transparent red oxide and Gamsol (Odorless Mineral Spirits). This creates a blueprint for design, values, edge relationships. One bristle brush and Viva paper towels. The ...

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MRO-Bass Rocks (part 2)

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MRO-Pemiquid Rocks (part 1)

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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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MRO-Pemiquid Rocks (part 2)

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MRO-Pemiquid Rocks (part 3)

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MRO-Pumpkin (part 1)

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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 determine where the shapes are ...

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MRO-Pumpkin (part 2)

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MRO-Pumpkin (part 3)

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