Painting at Cohasset Harbor

Cohasset Watercolors & Prints

..........watercolor notes of Milli's Place in Cohasset, overcast, Werner and Julie "Videosphered"


............................................................ We visited this spring, on this misty warm grey Atlantic day, before the hillside and the gardens had leafed out from under winter crushing of autumn's dun brown, leaving leaves crisp tans and chocolate damp. These late spring blankets were pierced through with bright green spears topped in bobbing, hopping, yellow crests of dancing daffodils, clusters of breeze bouncing pale green springs lean dripping blue cilla blossoms creep elsewhere ...
.............................................................I sat on a moss covered trunk, its top was polka dotted with a mantle of hard like little clamshells, all crusty white and creamy scattering of mushrooms, right at the spot I could get the first 'look' of the house you see upon turning into Milli's driveway.




Ebb tide has begun...
cleft holds the last flood tide's rush up granite ledge to pour it full.

from this watercolor of the old bridge to Whitehead Rock

Cohasset inlet: from the terrace

The edge of the terrace was a bounty of orange day lillies, blossoming astilbe spikes and then startling shrubberries tumbling over an older gardener's ornamental insight, down the seaside slope through a few great trees to a light blue band of sky and deep blue bits of Atlantic ocean, Cohasset Harbor inlet occaisional craft crossed, in, then outward, either side of the orange buoy

..............Everyone had painted well into late afternoon light, then we surprised ourselves with our contributions to a pot luck supper. The next day folks arrived and went back at our motifs as high tide filled yesterday's tidal flats and climbed the ledges covering the bands of knotted kelp or egg wrack sea weeds on Saturday morning, after onsite picnic lunches, the motifs changed with the shift to afternoon light and shadows, and watching the changes as the tide is running out..... Some headed home, a few of us took a couple of hours to enjoy Cohasset Harbor restaurants and others just strolled about with clam shack carryouts.
Sunday morning high tide arrives and yesterday morning's waterline inches back up the rock faces and floods the lagoon again. The weekend sketches and paintings of two half day high and low tides were collected and everyone reviewed and packed up.