Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting 2014
September 12th, 2014 Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) I had gone to The Old Granite Pier in Rockport last Tuesday to paint, but I was not – it was just not working for me that day. I spent hours and used a lot of paint, and at the end of the day…
September 7th, 2014 Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30 in (sold) On Thursday, without warning, my Uncle’s and my incredibly fit and healthy dog suddenly died. Apparently there had been a large tumor all around his heart, and it burst – and he passed away. He never had to be sick, never had to be…
August 29th, 2014 Old Granite Pier, Rockport MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) I felt like I’d been a bit of a wimp, leaving out all those buildings, boats and piers in my previous painting so reluctantly I decided to include a sampling of houses in this one. I think my degree…
August 23rd, 2014 Sun Dappled Woods Oil on Masonite, 8 x 10 in (nfs) Because of the size of it, this painting looks to me like a paint-by-numbers type product. I worked from a photo of the path to the boathouse on the island. I wanted to get the feel of motion through the patches…
August 22nd & 23rd, 2014 Kittery Point, Maine Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) This day began as a partly cloudy day, with nice big stretches of blue sky… but over the course of the 4 hours I was there painting, it gradually became overcast, and then gradually the silver clouds became steely.…
August 16th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in If you look closely, you can see a yellow leaf stuck to the surface of the painting. I was not quite in the mood for literal representations, and riding a light breeze of abstraction when that leaf fell into to my…
August 9th, 2014
Cox Reservation,
Essex MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
Some day at the end of July I was too distracted to paint 2014 Rocky Neck, Gloucester MA Oil on Masonite, 8 x 10 inches (sold) I was distracted. There were boats in the water but I never got around to putting them there. Did I mention I was distracted?
Near Christmas Cove, Maine
Oil on Canvasboard
20 x 16 in
July 21st, 2014 Damariscotta, ME Oil on (crumpled) Canvasboard, 20 x 16 in (sold) I was fortunate enough to spend a few days on a painting trip to Maine with David Curtis and Tom Heinsohn, where we were joined in painting by Bill Curtis and a few of his artist friends. Inspired by some true…