Boreas Sanctus
A Conclave of Cormorants June 28th, 2012 Bass Rocks, Gloucester MA Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (sold) What I like about this painting is the vibrancy of the sky at the horizon, which I think matches well the sky I was looking at. I also like the rocks. I want to make the…
In Progress June 26th, 2012 Halibut Point Quarry, Rockport MA Oil on Plywood, 18 x 24 in (sold) I love rocks, I love granite, and I really enjoyed painting them today. My struggle was / is the water, which is normally my “comfort zone” but the strange angles of the quarry borders threw me off…
June 23rd, 2012 Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 inches Cox Reservation, Essex MA (There’s glare on the bottom of painting in the photo, esp. left hand side, that I’ll need to retake to correct.) It was a beautiful day in Essex and I had brought three new knives to try out. None were exactly…
Logan June 18th & 19th, 2012 Tewksbury, MA Oil on Canvasboard, 16 x 20 in (nfs) I decided to try a new brush that I have while waiting for my knives to arrive. I also thought I might like to try painting a dog or cat, in real time, as a precursor to trying a…
Cogswell’s Grant
Essex, MA
Oil on Wood
18 x 24 in
In Progress June 11th & 12th, 2012 Hostas and the Path, Tewksbury MA (sold) I just finished this (15 mins ago) and still like to see it in the environment in which I painted it, though the angle of the photo is different from that of the scene. Again, trying to understand light and shadow…
June 9th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Wood, 18 x 24 in (sold) It was a hot and bright day when I painted this, and so much staring at the sky and land had really made it hard to see. I felt this was a disaster and I was really struggling, feeling about…
Twilight, Lake of the Woods June 3rd, 2012 Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in, (nfs) It was a very wet weekend so although I did paint this outdoors (in a gazebo) it is of a view that was a long way from where I stood in MA.
May 26th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex MA Oil on Wood, 24 x 18 in (sold) Last week and this week I chose subjects that are challenging to me – all this close vegetation and the sky through an umbrella of trees present a huge tangle of relationships of light and shadow, colour and contrast, and…
May 19th, 2012 Cox Reservation, Essex, MA Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in (sold) Owing to the terrific sunburn I gave myself last Saturday, this week I thought I’d tackle the quiet shade of a cluster of woods. I also wanted difficult subject matter I could sink my teeth into. I am trying to…