Beautiful and Brutal

Hopkins Forest, Williamstown, MA. 6x8 inches, gouache on multimedia paper. What amazed me during my visit to the forest was how extensive were the areas of snow dug up by deer looking for acorns. The forest in winter can be beautiful but also brutal.

Hopkins Forest Contrast

Hopkins Forest, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  The weather was nice enough to walk in Hopkins Forest yesterday.  This is a view on the lower loop, looking down into the ravine. I love the contrast between the snowbank and the trees on the stream banks below.

Monhegan Inspiration

View from Fish Beach Lane, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  My inspiration for this painting of these two structures is the great version of the same buildings by Charles Movalli, which he did from a slightly different angle.  

Monhegan Viewers

Viewers, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas. Sometimes you have to stop and look.

An Ocean View

An Ocean View, Monhegan Island, ME.  12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A view from Horns Hill. 

Privilege To See It

Southwest View, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  I remember thinking while looking at this view that it was a rare privilege to see it.

Monhegan Lighthouse

Lighthouse, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A seascape with no sea.

The Painter

The Painter, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  The painter is set up at the southern tip of the island near the remnants of the Sheridan.

Swim Beach

Swim Beach at Dusk, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Boats in and out of the water.  The seventh in this series.

Overturned Bucket

Overturned Bucket, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A tiny portion of Manana Island is visible through the open door on the left.

Approaching Fish Beach

Approaching Fish Beach, Monhegan Island, ME.  12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A painting of what I saw once, I think, when approaching Fish Beach.  

Rocky Monhegan

Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A view from the southwest corner looking north.  Smutty Nose Island at top left.

Monhegan Gardener

Gardener, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Not a seascape but an island landscape.

Island House

 Wyeth Kent House, Monhegan Island, ME. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  

Brooklyn in North Adams

Brooklyn Street, North Adams, MA.  18x24 inches, oil on panel.  A painting I made seven years ago, which I just re-touched a little today to fix a detail that always bothered me.