July 6th, 2013
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
12 x 16 in
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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 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…
May 19th, 2013
May 19th, 2013 Cox Reservation Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 16 x 20 in (sold) I wanted to paint the river at low tide because I liked the reflection of the sky in the puddles on the mudflats – so I hurried at the beginning to get my sky and water in (because…
May 4th, 2013
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
April 27th, 2013
April 27th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 20 x 24 in I hate this painting. I had a dreadful time trying to do it. I deemed this one unworthy even of the “Disasters” page. Then eventually I decided to fess up, partially. This is a small tolerable segment. Maybe when…
April 20th, 2013
April 20th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Pencil Sketch, 16 x 20 in Though I carried all my painting gear around the Greenbelt for at least an hour in search of something to paint, nothing “spoke to me.” Whatever’s been dogging me these past months, Lyme or otherwise, flared up again this weekend. I almost…
April 13th, 2013
April 13th, 2013 Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) I’ve painted in this same spot several times – most recently, January 19th (though standing in the same spot, that time I was looking to my right.) I am excited that some of the dingy grey grasses are…
April 8th-9th, 2013
Cox Reservation
Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 22 in