Boreas Sanctus
February 23 & 24, 2017 Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24in Lake of the Woods “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” Not a Plein Air, technically. I was indoors working with my friend David Curtis, who is recovering from a grave illness. Worked in studio, using as reference photos of a major storm up in Kenora…
Garish Still Life February 6th & 7th, 2017 Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in Again, I am giving private lessons and since they felt it was too cold out to paint, we opted for a still life. It took a solid 45 mins-1hr to set up, and even so is no triumph of compositional…
January 31st, 2017 Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in Today, I joined a good friend to paint. I was not satisfied with my rendering of the scene I had in mind yesterday, so I decided to find the photo that was close to it and work from that. So – this painting and the…
January 30th, 2017 Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in I was full of turmoil and was teaching a painting student. I couldn’t stand to paint the still life the student was painting so decided to work from a picture in my head. I needed to be at my lake. So I struggled to mix…
January 5th, 2017 Leo Oil on Board, 9 x 12 in My cat of 17.5 yrs has been very, very ill – and is probably very close to meeting his maker. While he was sleeping, I decided rather than just keeping vigil at his side & staring at him, perhaps I should paint him, from…
December 12th, 2016
(In Studio – from a photo I took of my Uncle’s Pond)
Oil on Panel, 16 x 20 in
December 5th, 2016 Oil on Panel, 12 x 16 in My mother reminded me of a photo I had taken and of one of my Uncle’s flowers. She suggested I make cards of it. I printed the photo, and then found myself trying to paint it. I’m not even sure if this is what she…
December 2nd, 2016 Oil on Panel, 16 x 20 in I’ve been living in Rockport since May and I suppose it was inevitable that I try my hand at this eventually (Motif #1.) I was actually out giving a private lesson at the time, so hadn’t entirely planned to paint much myself. I hadn’t been…
December 1st, 2016 Loon at Sunset Reprise Oil on Panel, 12 x 16 in, Again, trying to work out the gleaming light of sunset in puddles on the water.
October 27th 2016 Cogswell’s Grant, Essex MA Oil on un-primed canvas, 12 x 16 in I was at Cogswell’s Grant to lead the workshop that high winds had curtailed on Sunday. The weather was not windy but rain was imminent and as a result, very few people could make it. As a result of THAT,…