March 4, 2027 Watercolor Painting Demo with Sarah Baskin

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Sarah Baskin is an impressionistic watercolor and oil painter who lives part of the year in Sargentville, Maine, and the rest of the year in East Haddam, Connecticut.

Sarah left her career as a lawyer to focus on painting after recovering from breast cancer and losing both of her parents. She started her painting journey in watercolor, studying first in a weekly class with a Connecticut watercolorist and eventually in a six-month intensive virtual atelier course with Colorado watercolorist Dan Marshall. She also studied oil painting in workshops with Australian oil painter Colley Whisson, Rockport, MA artist Stapleton Kearns and California artist Tim Horn.

In each image she paints, Sarah aspires to be a painter of light, focusing on how the sunlight plays across the side of a building, how it sparkles on the water and how shadows stretch across a landscape, giving you the impression and atmosphere of a place, not a photorealistic rendering of that place. Sarah loves painting outside en plein air in challenging conditions of changing light, moisture, wind, heat and cold, and the occasional passerby, that force her to paint more quickly than she does in the studio and make her a better, looser painter. She regularly participates in plein air painting competitions. In 2026, Sarah was juried into the North Carolina Plein Air Art Festival in New Bern, which took place in May 2026, and the 10th Annual Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival, which took place in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada, in June 2026. In 2025, Sarah was juried into the 9th Annual Parrsboro International Plein Air Festival. In 2024, she won the best of Newburgh prize in the Hudson Valley Plein Air Painting Festival.

Sarah is an associate member of the Oil Painters of America, the American Impressionist Society, the National Watercolor Society, the New England Watercolor Society and the Lyme Art Association, an elected member of Connecticut Women Artists Inc., and a member of the Deer Isle Artists Association.

So far this year, Sarah’s work has been juried into the Lyme Art Association’s Ship to Shore: A Marine Show and First Impressions 34th Annual Associate Artist Show. Her painting “An Afternoon on the Alamar” received an honorable mention in the Vehicle Category of the February/March Plein Air Salon Art Competition. Her paintings “At Rest,” “The Muse of Rockport” and “Shimmering Evening” were also selected as finalists in that same competition. Her painting “At Rest” was also selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the March 2026 and January 2026 BoldBrush Painting competitions.

In 2025, Sarah’s work was juried into the New England Watercolor Society’s 2025 New England Regional Juried Exhibition in Watertown, MA, and three exhibits at the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, CT, winning the Matilda Brown Memorial Award in the Ship to Shore Exhibition. Her painting “At Rest” was awarded the honor of Honorable Mention – Enthusiast Class by renowned watercolorist Thomas W. Schaller in the November 2025 BoldBrush Painting competition. “At Rest” was also selected as part of the FAV15% (jury’s favorite 15% of the entries) in the November 2025 and December 2025 BoldBrush Painting competitions, and “An Afternoon on the Alamar” was selected as part of the FAV15% in the December 2025 BoldBrush Painting competition. Sarah’s painting “Earth Song” was also selected for the FAV15% in the August 2025 BoldBrush Competition.

In 2026, Sarah was selected to participate in the Great Spruce Head Island Art Week. In 2024 and 2025, Sarah was the November Artist in Residence at the Deer Isle Artists Association in Deer Isle, Maine, where she held a solo exhibition and artist talk. The work she submitted to the 2021 Hands on the Land: Art and the Environment in the Connecticut River Valley Exhibit was purchased by the Connecticut River Museum for its permanent collection. Find her here: sarahbaskinart.com Instagram.com/sarahbaskinart

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