Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting
Snow Meets High Tide Cox Reservation, Essex, MA Oil on Canvas, 11 x 14 in (sold) I need to re-take this photo with a better camera. When I started the painting, there were acres of snowy marshland in front of me – as I was finishing, there were almost none, just water, everywhere. The full…
March 7th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 12 x 24 in (sold) Poor photo, sorry – This is the third time I attempted to paint this area / view. It is the thorn in my craw. The view is “backlit,” which is to say, thorugh out the day the light shines consistently…
February 28th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex, MA Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in (sold) What’s funny about this one is that it didn’t occur to me until I had gotten home and seen Saturday’s painting that Tuesday’s was of basically the identical scene. There was this solemn grace in the stand and tangle of…
February 25th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in The day I worked on this we were having 50mph winds, which had resulted, by the time I got working, in two fully prepared palettes landing face down in the grass and countless other disasters. The blue in the foreground is…
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 22 in
February 18th, 2012 Mild Day Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in This one, though I see a few things yet to tweak, was a nice relief after a series of duds (see below.) There’s a stand of trees left of the rocks in the foreground, which is the source of…
February 6th, 2012 Near Exit 12 off 128, Gloucester MA
February 4th, 2012 Revisited February 7th, 2012 Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in I was trying to understand and how to navigate the difference between shade and light on a partly cloudy day, and how the colours change from warm to cool. As an objet d’art this hasn’t much to offer, but as an…
January 26th, 28th, February 1st, 2nd, etc. Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in This one is headed to the “Disasters” page shortly. In the endless effort to get the effect of light that was so beautiful, I was ultimately thwarted by my eyes being able to comprehend something that my brain couldn’t quite decode.…
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in