Cox Reservation,
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
20 x 24 in
October 19th, 2014
Category: Plein Air Painting
Plein Air Painting
September 30th, 2014
September 30th, 2014 River and Leaves – Andover, MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) I didn’t get to paint this weekend but a friend and I went yesterday (Tuesday the 30th) to paint the turning leaves. It was a cool day of rain cleverly disguised as “heavy mist.” The darkness of the…
Tidal River and the Sea
Tidal River and the Sea September 23rd, 2014 Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) This was a glorious day – one last little “Hurrah” of summer before the inevitable fall. It was warm, the sky was cloudless, and the parking was both legal and free! As usual I…
September 20th & 21st, 2014
September 20th & 21st, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) This was a “late light” painting day, and I was facing west watching ornamental grasses blowing as the clouds and sun sporadically light up and cast shadows over the land. When the light shone through the leaves and…
September 12th, 2014
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
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…
August 29th, 2014
August 29th, 2014 Old Granite Pier, Rockport MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) I felt like I’d been a bit of a wimp, leaving out all those buildings, boats and piers in my previous painting so reluctantly I decided to include a sampling of houses in this one. I think my degree…
August 23rd, 2014
August 23rd, 2014 Sun Dappled Woods Oil on Masonite, 8 x 10 in (nfs) Because of the size of it, this painting looks to me like a paint-by-numbers type product. I worked from a photo of the path to the boathouse on the island. I wanted to get the feel of motion through the patches…
August 22nd & 23rd, 2014
August 22nd & 23rd, 2014 Kittery Point, Maine Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) This day began as a partly cloudy day, with nice big stretches of blue sky… but over the course of the 4 hours I was there painting, it gradually became overcast, and then gradually the silver clouds became steely.…
August 16th, 2014
August 16th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in If you look closely, you can see a yellow leaf stuck to the surface of the painting. I was not quite in the mood for literal representations, and riding a light breeze of abstraction when that leaf fell into to my…