Boreas Sanctus
Lake of the Woods
September 12th, 2014 Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) I had gone to The Old Granite Pier in Rockport last Tuesday to paint, but I was not – it was just not working for me that day. I spent hours and used a lot of paint, and at the end of the day…
September 7th, 2014 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in (sold) On Thursday, without warning, my Uncle’s and my incredibly fit and healthy dog suddenly died. Apparently there had been a large tumor all around his heart, and it burst – and he passed away. He never had to be sick, never had to be…
Loon at Sunset July 19th, 2014 (Painted in MA as a value study using a photo I took at the Lake of the Woods) Oil on Gessoboard, 8 x 10 in (sold) This is my second uncharacteristically small painting. Although I could not get all the details as effectively as I wanted to, I felt…
July 5th, 2014
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30 in
June 9th, 2014 Kenora, Ontario Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (sold) In progress When I look at this photo, what I see is the difference in tone in the real clouds and the painted clouds. I can account for it partly by the photo having been taken about 2hrs after the clouds were…
Kenora, Ontario
Oil on Canvasboard
12 x 9 in
Kenora, Ontario
Oil on Canvasboard
16 x 20 in
Pocket Sunset May 13th, 2014 Oil on Canvasboard, 8x 6 in (sold) I have never painted anything this small in oils. A company marketing their canvasboard gave me a free one in a paint order, and I was going to give it away when I decided “What the hell” and dove in. Technically, this is…
May 8th-12th, 2014 Lake of the Woods, Ontario 24 x 30 in, Oil on Canvas (sold) I began this on a Thursday afternoon, getting the sky and treeline in I think – then I was too busy with teaching all day Friday to work. Because it’s been so warm, the paint was drying quickly so…
November 6th & 7th, 2013 Between two fronts Oil on Canvas, 24 x 36 in Technically, this is not a plein air, as I painted it indoors with reference to a photo, and memory of the day this summer it was taken – on Lake of the Woods. The foreground is volcanic rock. So as…