August 9th, 2014
Cox Reservation,
Essex MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
Dappled Light
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May 26th, 2014
Chestnut Tree
Cox Reservation,
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvasboard
14 x 18 in
April 5th, 2014
April 5th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvasboard, 9 x 12 in (sold) It was a beautiful day but very windy, and I was not in the mood to paint. I only had an enormous canvas and I spent the first hour and a half just ambling around looking for something that would…
March 29th, 2014
Cox Reservation,
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
18 x 24 in
March 24th, 2014
Final as of March 24th, 2014 Detail, unfinished March 22nd, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in SUNDAY: The frustration of yesterday has been fruitful and multiplied. I’m posting a detail of a section that I like, though it may no longer look like that. One fusses. Again, I went…
Windswept
March 15th, 2014 Windswept Great Marsh, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) It was a beautiful day, warm (50 deg.) and bright. The sky was overcast when I got there and started painted but was magnificently moody late in the day. My intention was to learn how to paint…
March 8th, 2014
March 8th, 2014 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) Not only was it a balmy 50 degrees, but the sun was out, there was almost no wind, and there was still lots of snow. An ideal day to paint. I went to a part of the reservation I’d never…
January 25th, 2014
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 20th, 2014
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 13th, 2014
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…