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January 2023 - New Gallery Member Ivy Breen

12/28/2022

 
Welcome Ivy!
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Ivy found her way under the wharf at a very low tide to complete a plein air pastel of the underside of the walkway, highlighting the piers, which are set to be replaced.  Although long overdue, they served their purpose for many years and she wanted to capture that before they were replaced.      
      
Ivy usually starts with a vivid underpainting of pastels applied, as seen in the first photo below, left, that is  wetted down with mineral spirits. When pastels are wetted down they revert to wet paint and you use a brush to manipulate it just like watercolor, but when it dries, it turns back into a chalk like dry medium.  Then you use pastel sticks to work over this base for the finished look as in the second photo below right.  
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Penn Cove Gallery is located on the Coupeville Historic Waterfront.  Coupeville, the second-oldest town in Washington,
is the heart of 
Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, the nation's first, on scenic Whidbey Island.
If you are coming from the south take the Mukilteo/Clinton ferry; 
from the west the Port Townsend/Coupeville ferry; from the north drive over the Deception Pass Bridge.



Our ADA compliant gallery offers street-level access via the Grace Street entrance
and one public handicapped parking space on Front Street .
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