Boreas Sanctus
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…
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…
Ipswich River,
Topsfield / Ipswich, MA
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in
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…
March 6th, 2014 (nfs) As you can see, I’m working from a photo, this is clearly not Plein Air. For various reasons, I haven’t been able to get out to paint in about three weeks. It’s been frustrating, but at the same time, I think I’m undergoing one of those metamorphoses I occasionally go through…
February 11th, 2014 Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in (nfs) In a hurry, in a mood, I did this. I’m in CT this weekend and can’t get out to paint. I did this before leaving and there are things I would like to fix, but it will be dry by the time I get…
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…