Old Garage and Flowers

Old Garage and Flowers, Williamstown, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on canvas panel.  This one I did this morning on site.  The angular lines appealed to me, as well as the spots of flowers and tree holes.  

Old Reliable

Old Milk Shed, Williamstown, MA. 12x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  The sun was in and out, but I managed to make a painting of this old reliable earlier today.  I've been painting it for 17 years and it's still the same gray.

Art and Nature

Entrance to the Pottery Studio, Pownal, VT.  16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  When I painted a plein air view of the studio entrance a month ago, I felt that the boundaries of the studio and nature were overlapping.  This is a studio painting with the same theme.

The Hot Kiln

The Hot Kiln, Pownal, VT.  12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  From my shady spot under a tree, I observed and painted the kiln, now cooling but still fiery hot at 1400 degrees, after the previous day's firing. 

 

Sunlight Patch

 Patch of Sunlight, Plum Island, Newbury, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on gesso panel. 

On Exhibition

 

This painting and drawing of two abandoned farm carts from two different locations are included in the juried exhibition "Lost & Found: New England's Landscape" at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, VT.  The exhibition runs from July 9 to August 24.

The Pond and the Heron

Pond View, Grafton, MA. 8x10 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  On a weekend visit to Grafton, I painted a section of the pond.  A blue heron majestically landed in front of me but immediately departed when he saw me.

 

Atlantic Avenue

Atlantic Avenue Near Franklin, Brooklyn. 12x16 inches, oil on panel. A painting from six years ago, which I slightly re-touched recently.  

It Did Not Rain

Red Barn, Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  Yesterday I painted until I couldn't ignore the increasing wind, the approaching thunder and the dark clouds behind me.  Of course, it never did rain after all. 

Short-Lived Story

Plum Island, Newbury, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on gesso panel.  Footprints in the sand tell a short-lived story, though ever repeating, like the ocean.

Real and Unreal

Plum Island, Newbury, MA.  11x14 inches, oil on gesso panel.  What I like about this painting is that it is both real and unreal at the same time.  The scene is from the aptly named Sandy Point State Reservation at the southern tip of Plum Island.

The New Wood Pile

The Kiln and the Wood Pile, Pownal, VT. 12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  The weather allowed the sun to appear today, so I headed to the kiln to paint the new wood pile before it disappeared into the consuming fire.  The wood pile offers a nice contrast with all the surrounding green.

Oil Paint

Plum Island, Newbury, MA. 11x14 inches on gesso panel.  I like beaches, clouds, oceans and oil paint.

Everlasting

Open Gate, Pownal, VT. 12x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  The wind had its moments today moving my umbrella around and threatening to flip my easel. I wanted to paint this view because I like the shadows on the grass.  Something everlasting about them even though they move.  

 

Took a While

Pasture Entrance and Corn Field, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  A simple landscape that took a while to paint.

Unlit and Aflame

The Kiln, Pownal, VT.  8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel. The other day I decided to push this painting a bit further on site:  a quiet, unlit place of fire amidst the flaming greenery of spring. 

The Beach, the Ocean and the Sky

Plum Island, Newbury, MA. 8x10 inches, gouache on mixed media paper. A study of the beach, the ocean and the sky.

Greylock Gouache

Mount Greylock from Field Farm, Williamstown, MA.  8x10 inches, gouache on mixed media paper. It was hot and hazy today, but I can always find a cool shadow there from which to paint.