Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting
January 30th, 2017 Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in I was full of turmoil and was teaching a painting student. I couldn’t stand to paint the still life the student was painting so decided to work from a picture in my head. I needed to be at my lake. So I struggled to mix…
January 5th, 2017 Leo Oil on Board, 9 x 12 in My cat of 17.5 yrs has been very, very ill – and is probably very close to meeting his maker. While he was sleeping, I decided rather than just keeping vigil at his side & staring at him, perhaps I should paint him, from…
December 12th, 2016
(In Studio – from a photo I took of my Uncle’s Pond)
Oil on Panel, 16 x 20 in
December 5th, 2016 Oil on Panel, 12 x 16 in My mother reminded me of a photo I had taken and of one of my Uncle’s flowers. She suggested I make cards of it. I printed the photo, and then found myself trying to paint it. I’m not even sure if this is what she…
December 2nd, 2016 Oil on Panel, 16 x 20 in I’ve been living in Rockport since May and I suppose it was inevitable that I try my hand at this eventually (Motif #1.) I was actually out giving a private lesson at the time, so hadn’t entirely planned to paint much myself. I hadn’t been…
December 1st, 2016 Loon at Sunset Reprise Oil on Panel, 12 x 16 in, Again, trying to work out the gleaming light of sunset in puddles on the water.
October 27th 2016 Cogswell’s Grant, Essex MA Oil on un-primed canvas, 12 x 16 in I was at Cogswell’s Grant to lead the workshop that high winds had curtailed on Sunday. The weather was not windy but rain was imminent and as a result, very few people could make it. As a result of THAT,…
October 18th & 19th, 2016 Loon Phoenix Rising Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in Not a Plein Air! I worked on this one rainy day and one sunny day. I attempted a similar painting a year ago and I was not pleased with the result. There’s something about the light and water my mind…
Magnolia, Massachusetts
Oil on Canvasboard
18 x 24 in
September 9th, 2016 Kenora, Ontario Canada Oil on Canvasboard, 18 x 24 in (I think) I painted this, though I was not intending to fess up about it any time soon. I like the water on the left especially, I am angry about the trees. In real life, there is a bridge where lies that…