Mill Ruins - Lisbon Maine (The sluice)
Old Mills were so common while I was growing up in Westbrook, Maine. Some have found new life and are being redeveloped and re-purposed. The same thing is happening in nearby Lewiston.
Since moving to Lisbon Falls in 2003 - three mills in town have been demolished. These ruins have further been demolished as part of an effort to rehabilitate the river. I'd started to sketch another mill in nearby Sabattus - and a month later - that was gone too.
This large watercolor was started about a year ago and, as is often the case, was set aside while I worked on other projects. I then darkened the sky with another rich wash of blue (see the picture on the left below) but that didn't really seem to balance the great deal of activity in the foreground of the painting. I added some clouds as was (same picture) and lightened the sky. Back to the revisit bin for a few more months until earlier this week.
I decided to be much more aggressive reworking the sky, to add more dynamic clouds/ patterns and I was happy with how this turned out. Still a little more work to do, but almost there.
I'll explain the construction of this composition in another post.
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