Boreas Sanctus
Disasters
Untitled It’s been a while since I posted on this page, though this is most certainly not the only disaster in recent history. I’ve squirreled several away somewhere, and will eventually post. This one – painted sometime in October or November of 2015, I believe – as is perenially the case, I was fixated on…
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…
Tree in Seine Field, Gloucester – With Tantrum I have this painting – a cropped version thereof, on my “new work” page. I think the left hand side is just fine! But the right hand side, the boughs that were catching the brunt of the afternoon sun, I simply could not get right. I loved…
Untitled Before beginning this painting, I had furiously declared a war on trees – deciduous trees, specifically, because they are a pain in the neck to paint, particularly with a pallette knife, which is all I have used since July 2011. I may have mentioned this earlier, elsewhere, but once you get into the upper…
Late December, 2011 Now THAT, I bet you’re thinking, is a REAL DISASTER! This is what it looks like when I have worked so hard at something that is not working that I take a risk and ask for opinions – and the opinions so crush my desire even to try, that I sabotage the…