Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Hay Bales Painting


Hay Bales at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  

Monday, August 14, 2023

Hay Bales at Field Farm


 Hay Bales at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, charcoal on paper.  

Sunday, August 13, 2023

Drawn to Hay Bales


 Hay Bales at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, pencil and charcoal on paper. 

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Time For a Drawing


Hay Bales at Field Farm. 9x12 inches, charcoal on paper.  It's time for a drawing.  I was inspired by the fabulous urban drawings I saw recently done by the English artist Peter Brown, aka Pete the Street.

Friday, August 11, 2023

Just An Empty Field


Old Hancock Barns. 16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Yesterday I drove by the spot where these two barns used to stand.  Just an empty field now, leaving an empty feeling.  I felt compelled to remember them in this painting done today.

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Temporary Addition


Hay Bales at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  The round hay bales are an intriguing though temporary addition to the landscape.  At Field Farm they randomly fill a large space offsetting the iconic background. 

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

One Can Find


The Hopper, Mount Greylock and Hay Bales at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.  At the moment, there are so many round hay bales, that one can find an interesting composition by walking around the big field.

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Marine Railways


 The Marine Railways at Rocky Neck in Gloucester, MA. 24x18 inches, oil on linen canvas.

Monday, August 7, 2023

The Declining Light


Late afternoon view across Smith Cove in Gloucester, MA. 6x8 inches, oil on gessobord.  Someone who saw me painting asked what I was painting, because it looked like there was nothing to see.  I think I was trying to paint the declining light.  

Saturday, August 5, 2023

The Hopper and Hay Bales


The Hopper and Hay Bales from Field Farm in Williamstown, MA.  12x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  It wasn't windy today, so my umbrella didn't do any somersaults like the other day.  Everywhere one looks right now farmers are mowing.

Friday, August 4, 2023

The Far Away Hopper


The Hopper from far away. 12x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  The view from Field Farm in Williamstown, MA.  

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Another Vantage Point


Another vantage point from which to view the Hopper, on the boundary between a woody pasture and two hayfields at Haley Farm at the end of Hopper Road in Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

A Sense of Wildness


Painting this view of the Hopper, partially hidden by two old tree trunks, during yesterday's windy day, gave me a sense of wildness.  9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Two Gloucesters



Two plein air paintings done at Rocky Neck and at Eastern Point Lighthouse in Gloucester on Friday last week, and only posted on Facebook and Instagram.  Both are 9x12 inches, oil on gessobord.

Smith Cove Morning


A small painting of the view across Smith Cove from Rocky Neck in Gloucester, MA. early in the morning. 6x8 inches, oil on gessobord.