Back when I was in high school my art teacher organized a field trip to Cobscook Bay State Park. It remains today as one of my all time favorite places in the state of Maine. While at the retreat we had 3 local artists (all successful) painting and drawing with us live. At 17 it was an amazing experience. One of the guys (the guy who does the paintings for Coast of Maine compost) was about 2 hours late but we all grouped around him anyway, watching him closely.  I’ve always thought of how cool it would be to have something similar now.

I'm kinda of bummed we didn't get to go this year.

So perhaps for next year we should schedule an artist’s retreat at Cobscook Bay campground? Maybe not with the classes, unless someone wants to organize those, but a group of artists sitting around campfires at night and wandering out into the landscape painting.  I’ll be there at some point. I’ll decide wellin advance and post up info, so any other artists who want to travel to the state can do so at the same time. I’ll warn you though, the good campsites are taken well in advance!