August 22nd & 23rd, 2014

August 22nd & 23rd, 2014

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.…

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August 16th, 2014

August 16th, 2014

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…

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July, 2014

Some day at the end of July I was too distracted to paint 2014

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?

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July 21st, 2014

July 21st, 2014

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…

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Loon at Sunset

July 19th, 2014

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…

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July 11th, 2014 AM

July 11th, 2014 AM

July 11th, 2014 AM North Shore Art Association, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvasboard, 9 x 12 in (sold) Day three of the boats and buildings workshops, my eye is arrested by a white morning glory blooming quietly in the lush shade. I set up and jumped in. The story lay in the play of warm…

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