A few seats remain available for the Perspective Drawing class at Artwaves MDI (soon to be the Acadia Center for the Arts!) led by landscape painters Rick Osann and Joan Vienot. Visit the Artwaves website soon to reserve your spot!

ArtWaves Website

Perspective: Creating the Illusion of Depth

Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21, & 28, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM in the Kaleidoscope Studio

Have you ever struggled with making windows, doors and buildings look right in your drawings and paintings?

This course will explain the simple system discovered in the Renaissance, called Linear Perspective, that will add to your tool kit to create more accurate drawings and paintings, especially of the built environment. The idea that things appear to be smaller in the distance, is deceptively simple.

In this session of four classes instructors Joan Vienot and Rick Osann will explain the system and how to apply it to your existing drawing skills through demonstration and mentored practice. Well have fun drawing lots of different shapes!

About the Instructors:

Rick Osann has been painting in watercolor since the early 1970’s. After various careers as a professional Scenic Artist working for stage, film & TV in New York City, and teaching art/theatre/film at Bonny Eagle High School in southern Maine, Rick is now happily focusing on his painting in Bar Harbor, Maine. Rick provides instruction in painting and drawing.

Joan Vienot received state teacher certification in Fine Art from the University of Northern Colorado. She taught art in a public high school in Colorado for 3 years. She moved to Northwest Florida, where she enjoyed a business career, and also taught numerous art classes and workshops to adults. In 2022 Joan moved to Maine to paint the rocky coastline. Joan offers instruction in drawing and plein air painting.

Rick Osann Art supports many local non-profits with the donation of paintings for silent auctions, including this past year Friends of Acadia, Camp Beech Cliff, MDI Nursing Association, Maine Oceanarium, and Maine Needs in Portland. With all the uncertainty out there, this holiday season Rick Osann Art will donate 10% of the price of any sale from now until the end of the year to the Good Shepherd Food Bank supporting food pantries all across the state of Maine.

Due to increases in the prices of materials and so forth, prices for Rick’s paintings will be increasing. We’ll hold the old pricing structure through the end of the year. Now’s the time to choose a painting (including new works) at the old price!

We wish you all the happiest holiday season and thank you for your support over the past year. Happy Holidays!

Rick Osann and Joan Vienot will team up to lead a class about perspective drawing in January. Learn how to use the system of linear perspective to improve your understanding of what you see and apply it to your drawing and painting. The four class series will be from 10:00am – 1:00pm on the four Wednesdays in January.

Visit the Artwaves website for registration information.

https://www.artwavesmdi.org/event-6440354

The Lodge at Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor hosts a display of Rick’s watercolor paintings in the fall, from mid-September through December. A selection of paintings are hanging in the Dining Room and Hallway. Please contact Susanne Hopkins at Birch Bay Village to arrange for a visit at 207-288-8014 x5211 or shopkins@birchbayvillage.us.

Thank you to the New England Watercolor Society and Janine Gallizia, Selection Jurist, for choosing “Boatyard at Sunset” to be included in this autumn’s Regional Exhibition at the Mosesian Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. The exhibition will run from Nov. 14, 2025 to Jan. 9, 2026.

I’ll be teaching an intro watercolor landscapes class again this fall for 7 weeks every Tuesday from 10:00am-1:00pm, starting Sept 23 and ending Nov. 4.

We’ll follow a similar curriculum as the spring class but with improved exercises, focusing on elements & principles of design as well as tackling specific subject matter each week. The final two weeks will be focused on putting it all together for a landscape of your choice.

Please contact Artwaves for more information.
www ArtwavesMDI.com
Office@artwavesmdi.com
207-266-0010

I hope to see you there! Keep painting!

August 23-24 Southwest Harbor

Coastal Fine Arts Alliance of Maine at the Southwest Harbor Village Green

I have some new pieces to display this weekend with the other juried CFAAM artists on the beautiful Village Green in Southwest Harbor. CFAAM includes a quality group of artists working in a wide variety of media who are selected to participate in the show by a jury of their peers. I hope to see you there!

Next up will be the Bar Harbor Fine Arts Festival, Sept. 5, 6 & 7, at the Bar Harbor waterfront. I’ll be the first booth next to Main St!

July 26 & 27, Southwest Harbor

Coastal Fine Arts Alliance of Maine at the Southwest Harbor Village Green

Please stop by to see my new work and the other juried CFAAM artists on the beautiful Village Green in Southwest Harbor. CFAAM includes a quality group of artists working in a wide variety of media who are selected to participate in the show by a jury of their peers. I hope to see you there!

CFAAM will be back to Southwest Harbor again August 23-24.

Rick Osann Art will be displaying new paintings at the Belfast Arts in the Park, June 28-29, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Saturday and Sunday. Arts in the Park features more than 100 artists and craftspeople along with music and food on Belfast’s beautiful Steamboat Landing Park.

Please stop by Tent #97, just across from the Music Gazebo, to say hi and see what’s new!

Shaw Jewelry, Northeast Harbor

Please come celebrate the Opening Reception of Shaw Jewelry’s first summer-season display of jewelry and art featuring the paintings of Rick Osann, watercolor landscape artist from Bar Harbor, Madi Person, artist and recent alumnus of COA, and the jewelry of Maracole Bijoux.

Through his background as a theatrical set and lighitng designer, Rick is most interested in exploring light, shadow and color in dramatic moments of nature through his painting, celebrating the landscapes of Maine.

Thursday, June 12, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Shaw Contemporary Jewelry, 128 Main St., Northeast Harbor, ME