July 11th, 2013
Category: Plein Air 2013
Plein Air Painting 2013
July 10th, 2013
July 10th, 2013 St Peter’s Square, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) I am having trouble getting a good photo of this painting. I did this on location at the docks in Gloucester, day one of a workshop on buildings and boats. You may have noticed how carefully I avoid painting…
Blackberries
July 6th, 2013
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16 in
July 2nd, 2013
July 2nd, 2013 The Breezeway Rocky Neck, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) We’ve had a tumultuous weather system hanging above us for about a week – overcast with sunny breaks, occasional rain, occasional thunderstorm, occasional tornado warning. I need to re-take this photo.
June 29th, 2013
June 29th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt Essex, MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) Well, on Friday the thing I’ve been dreading for two years finally happened – namely, my two favorite players were traded from the Celtics to the Nets. So all of Friday I was in a funk. Saturday, however,…
June 22nd, 2013
June 22nd, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in (sold) I only had a small canvas, and I wanted to find a subject to do in a close up / study (rather than a big vista on a small scale.) Also I wanted to paint sitting down, and…
June 19th-23rd, 2013
June 19th-23rd, 2013 Half Moon Beach, Gloucester MA (January 15th revisited.) Oil on Canvas, 22 x 28 in (sold) I tried painting this water in January and was not pleased with the result, so I tried again this week – and I’m not overly pleased with the result. However, I have learned a thing or…
June 15th, 2013
June 15th, 2013 Gloucester, MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) This is still not finished. I don’t intend to make it more polished, exactly – I won’t be adding more detail to the figure, I don’t imagine… this was an exercise painting a figure in the garden and attempting to depict the…
June 8th, 2013
June 8th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) The plein air group (led by my favorite living American artist, David P. Curtis) (favorite living Canadian artist is John Smith) that I normally go out with had cancelled the day’s painting in favor of Sunday, which promised…
June 3rd, 2013
June 3rd, 2013 Lake of the Woods, Memory Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in (sold) Without realizing it, I did something just like this exactly a year ago. This one – I can’t seem to take a picture of it without a distracting glare that ill affects the balance of the painting. It’s a…