Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting 2013
December 21, 2013 Stage Fort Park, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvas covered canvasboard, 18 x 24 in (sold) Although it was not ideal weather as far as my winter instincts are concerned, it was a great day to be out painting. The overcast sky was pretty ideal, considering it was the shortest day of the…
Backyard, Massachusetts
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
Half Moon Beach, Gloucester MA
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16 in
Stage Fort Park,
Gloucester, MA
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
Half Moon Beach
Gloucester, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
November 9th, 2013 Stage Fort Park, Gloucester, MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in I keep being dazzled by how the sun shines through the fall leaves making them glow like precious gem stones with an inherent light source. I keep attempting to paint what I see, and I keep not quite getting it.…
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…
October 27th, 2013 Boreas Sanctus Gallery and Studio Studio 105 122 Western Avenue Lowell, Massachusetts 01851 Although I did paint on Saturday, my mind and heart weren’t really in it, and my paintings always know when I’m insincere – and punish me by being ugly. I may try to fix it, but decided to spend…
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
October 14th, 2013 & Thereafter Western Avenue Studios, Lowell, Massachusetts I don’t know if anyone has noticed that a lot of my paintings this year involved very little in the way of horizon, and a lot in the way of confusion, commotion, constrictiveness. Like I’m perennially trying to make sense of thousands of different elements…