Pondering the View

Pond at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 9 x 12 inches, oil on linen panel. Since rain is coming, I spent the afternoon at the pond painting outside while I can.  This is the same view as yesterday's drawing.

Gone

Old Farmhouse, Williamstown, MA. 18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas. A painting I did three years ago.  I’ve painted this farmhouse many times. I’m sorry to say that the farmhouse was torn down recently. I’m certain there must have been good reasons for demolishing it. I can’t think of any at the moment. 

Pond Drawing

Pond at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, pencil on paper. What I am trying to do here is draw what can't be drawn easily, abundant bursting nature.  I've been looking at the English artist Tom Fairs, whose drawings display a mastery of drawing the impossible.

In Front of Me

Rocks and Sea, Ogunquit, ME.  9x12 inches, pencil on paper.  I sat on a bench on the Marginal Way and sketched what was in front of me.  

Amidst and Behind

Entrance to Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, ME.  8x10 inches, oil on linen panel.  Done while perched amidst the rocks behind the Ogunquit Museum.

Wild and Jungly

Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  In the late summer there's always something wild and jungly or jungle-like about Field Farm.

Dynamic Iconic

Greylock from Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  A dynamic summer view of an iconic landscape.

Yellow and Lightly Dappled

The Hopper at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper. When I went to Field Farm the other day, the ground was yellow and the sky was lightly dappled.

Looks Idyllic

View from the Top of Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  This view, slightly different from the other day, looks idyllic but there was frequent car traffic going by.  I was only ten feet from the road.  Some people slowed down to say nice things though.  

A Visit to Arles

Arles, France.  16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  This painting derives from a visit to Arles many years ago. The colors remind me of someone.  I started the painting three years ago and was waiting for a rainy day to finish it.

A Lot of Them

View from Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on canvas panel.  It was a nice cloud day so I went up to where I could see a lot of them.  

A Gaze Upon the Seine

Pont du Carrousel, Paris.  11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.   A memory painting from our last visit to Paris.

Breadth of the View

Mount Greylock from Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA. 10x20 inches, oil on linen panel. With this size panel I was able to place Greylock at the upper right and include the near foreground tree at the lower left to suggest the breadth of the view.  The mountain at the left is Prospect, which usually hides Greylock from view.
 

In the Top Center

View of Mount Greylock from Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA. 8x16 inches, oil on linen panel. Earlier this week I painted at the top of Sheep Hill.   I used a 1:2 ratio panel to prep for a possible larger painting.  A different format poses different issues: my aim here was to put Greylock in the top center.

 

Nape of the Neck

Oakes Cove at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA. 6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  A plein air depiction of the nape of the neck.