This month's challenge for Girls Just Wanna Paint is "Maine". I spend two weeks each summer in Maine on Monhegan Island, and have been going to Midcoast Maine near Pemaquid for decades. The Maine coastal air has a beautiful crisp quality and sparkle. I decided to paint my take on Maine diner, which could be in any one of a number of coastal towns overlooking the local harbor. You can see the process photos below. My intention was to show the conversation of this couple inside, with the active harbor beyond the 
windows in the bright of day. My initial design had two women, one younger, one older, having lunch, but I changed it to a man and woman having lunch. I liked the contrast of the interior against the general boat shapes and sky outside. Eventually I glazed everything inside with a warm to unify the interior. I moved a few things around, lowering the lantern to break the line of the beam, and removing one of the dock posts outside, which was interfering with the intimacy of
the conversation between the dating couple by obscuring the interesting profile of her face.
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