January 24th, 2012
High Tide
Cox Reservation, Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in
January 24th, 2012
Cloud Cover Clearing
Cloud Cover Clearing
January 10th, 2012
Cox Reservation, Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in
I started painting when the sky was all a blanket of steely cloud, and tried to keep up as the cloud cover began to split and give way to a crystalline blue.
January 6th & 7th, 2012
A Patch of Winter
January 6th & 7th, 2012
Cox Reservation, Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in
As it says, this little patch of ice and snow was all that could be found on the marsh that I felt was suitably wintery. The flattish area between the reeds fills with water when the tide is up, and this patch of ice managed to form at some point between tides.
January 1st & 2nd, 2012
Prairie Snow, Saskatchewan
January 1st & 2nd, 2012
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in
(I worked from a photo on this one, and am not too thrilled with how it came out. It looks to me like a collage of pastel mini-marhsmallows. I don’t like working from pictures anymore, even though experience and memory can break through the two-dimensional summary that is a photograph, in this case, I don’t think I pulled it off. I’ve been missing snow this winter, there hasn’t been any – which is why I wanted to try this.)