Boreas Sanctus
Plein Air Painting 2014
February 8th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (sold) This was taken from a distance, obviously. Your eyes get tired quickly from staring at snow a long time, even if you carefully chose a predominantly shady vista. There was so much reflected light bouncing around towards the end of…
January 25th, 2014 Cox Reservation Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in I’m pretty sure I did roughly this exact same view around this same time last year. The reason is not that I am captivated by the scene particularly, so much as that there is a nice wooden bench there,…
January 22nd, 2014 This was just a sketch I did this week. I had Robert Frost’s “Come In” running through my head, and also a parable a friend’s mother once told me. I may type out the parable later, but the poem is this: As I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music…
Unfinished January 20th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex, MA Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (sold) I was fortunate to be able to join up with ‘The Posse’ and paint today. The earlier part of the day (when I did the ice) the sun was much brighter so there was a lot more…
January 18th & 19th, 2014 No painting! Saturday there was too much snow falling to paint, and Sunday I had to run all the errands I couldn’t get to because I was shut in on Saturday. Hope to paint early this week. (Photo is from a lovely dog walk on Saturday.)
January 13th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) It was a bright, mild day (though not as mild as I had dressed for – just because it’s above freezing does not necessarily mean you can go without a jacket.) David had been to the Sargent exhibit…
Final January 11th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt Essex, MA Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in It was a mild but wet day, so much “heavy mist” (or “rain” as most people refer to it) that my paint, liberally imbued with “mist” (i.e., water) would not stick to the board, because the board too…