Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting
April 27th, 2014 Haggett’s Pond, Andover MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in I can go about my business thinking all is fine, until I go painting and find myself choosing a subject of such dense, convoluted complexity as this. The weekend at Essex was rained out, so I decided to try a lake…
Emily April 20th, 2014 Pencil, 8 x 10 in approx. My niece is a remarkable artist, and one morning while we were both visiting her grandparents for Easter we decided to draw each other’s portraits. She was working very hard, hence the serious expression and downcast eyes. When not looking so studious, she’s bright eyed…
April 18th, 2014 Class Demo on Sarah’s Birthday Wilmington Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in I have been teaching an oil painting class in Wilmington Friday mornings and this morning I brought in flowers for my students to paint in still lives. One of them asked if I would be doing a demonstration at…
April 14th, 2014 Bass Rocks, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvas, 20 x 30 in (sold) I got to spend a glorious day yesterday sitting in the sun and wind at Bass Rocks painting and chatting with David Curtis. I had the canvas covered by the end of the day but a few kinks to work…
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
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…