Boreas Sanctus
April 9th, 2014 Ipswich River at Willowdale, Topsfield MA Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in approx. (sold) It was another beautiful spring day, and I met up with “the posse” to paint on Wednesday. I couldn’t finish, however, as I had to go do some teaching – and the rest of the week was…
April 5th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvasboard, 9 x 12 in (sold) It was a beautiful day but very windy, and I was not in the mood to paint. I only had an enormous canvas and I spent the first hour and a half just ambling around looking for something that would…
Willowdale, on Ipswich River,
Topsfield
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
Untitled This wretched, hideous wasteland of a painting was a big, long letdown for me. I went to the location in Essex on a rainy day, but was so desperate to paint I ignored it, and stood out in the rain and rising tide (the entire left hand side of the scene, with the yellow…
Cox Reservation,
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
Final as of March 24th, 2014 Detail, unfinished March 22nd, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in SUNDAY: The frustration of yesterday has been fruitful and multiplied. I’m posting a detail of a section that I like, though it may no longer look like that. One fusses. Again, I went…
March 15th, 2014 Windswept Great Marsh, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) It was a beautiful day, warm (50 deg.) and bright. The sky was overcast when I got there and started painted but was magnificently moody late in the day. My intention was to learn how to paint…
Ipswich River,
Topsfield / Ipswich, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
March 8th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) Not only was it a balmy 50 degrees, but the sun was out, there was almost no wind, and there was still lots of snow. An ideal day to paint. I went to a part of the reservation I’d never…
March 6th, 2014 (nfs) As you can see, I’m working from a photo, this is clearly not Plein Air. For various reasons, I haven’t been able to get out to paint in about three weeks. It’s been frustrating, but at the same time, I think I’m undergoing one of those metamorphoses I occasionally go through…