Boreas Sanctus
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…
Loon at Sunset July 19th, 2014 (Painted in MA as a value study using a photo I took at the Lake of the Woods) Oil on Gessoboard, 8 x 10 in (sold) This is my second uncharacteristically small painting. Although I could not get all the details as effectively as I wanted to, I felt…
July 5th, 2014
Oil on Canvas
24 x 30 in
June 9th, 2014 Kenora, Ontario Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (sold) In progress When I look at this photo, what I see is the difference in tone in the real clouds and the painted clouds. I can account for it partly by the photo having been taken about 2hrs after the clouds were…
Kenora, Ontario
Oil on Canvasboard
12 x 9 in
Kenora, Ontario
Oil on Canvasboard
16 x 20 in
Pocket Sunset May 13th, 2014 Oil on Canvasboard, 8x 6 in (sold) I have never painted anything this small in oils. A company marketing their canvasboard gave me a free one in a paint order, and I was going to give it away when I decided “What the hell” and dove in. Technically, this is…
May 8th-12th, 2014 Lake of the Woods, Ontario 24 x 30 in, Oil on Canvas (sold) I began this on a Thursday afternoon, getting the sky and treeline in I think – then I was too busy with teaching all day Friday to work. Because it’s been so warm, the paint was drying quickly so…
I’m in Canada, on Lake of the Woods, and having trouble painting because they apparently changed the recipe of the blue I’ve been using for 25 years. Since all of my colours are mixed from the three primaries and white, this overly opaque, overly bright blue is throwing off my entire palette. There is no…
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…