Exploring the Interior

I continue to explore the interior of my house for openings. 8x6 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Interior at night

 Living room interior at night. 6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Closer to Home

A third interior painting, this one closer to home. 6x8 inches, watercolor and gouache on mixed media paper.  

An Interior

 An interior. 8x6 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

A Combo-Experiment

This is a combo-experiment.  I've wanted to start doing interiors.  And I want to work from drawings where there's just so much information, so some has to be invented. Here's a view from a living room out to the porch, an excuse for putting down painted markings, from a drawing I did yesterday.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Repainting

Boats undergoing repair and repainting at the port of Nice. 18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.

Painting of a Painting

A large painting of two boats being painted at the port in Nice.  I did a small gouache painting of the same view in September at Nice.  The idea of painting an image of a boat that is being painted for some reason intrigues me. 18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.

Chicken Scratch Landscape

What may appear like chicken scratch is a view north of the mountainous landscape from a snowy Sheep Hill in Williamstown, MA.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  

With A Winter Coat

This morning I was reminded of this old farmhouse, which I painted several times this spring.  So I painted it again today with its winter coat on.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Painting Them Again

The port of Nice has a large number of brightly painted boats.  I'm trying to figure out how to paint them again.  6x8 inches, oil on linen panel.

New Home

Here’s the 3 by 4 foot landscape painting of Mount Greylock and the Hopper, which I recently completed, hanging in its new location in a collector's home.

The Benefits of Studying

The result of yesterday's study is this larger version of the Pont Royal across the Seine River in Paris.18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.

Bridge Study

This postcard painting of Pont Royal in Paris is a study for a larger version.  6x8 inches, oil on multimedia artboard.

A Reactionary

When I was young, I read Clement Greenberg, and if you subscribed to his ideas, painting was over. Robert Motherwell declared eighty years ago that landscape painting ended with Cezanne. So here I am again painting in a retardataire, reactionary, worn out manner.  But then, I think because other people have already visited Paris, that isn't a reason why I shouldn't go too.  A Seine postcard painting. 6x8 inches, oil on multimedia artboard.

Pont Royal and the Seine

 A postcard painting of Pont Royal and the Seine. 6x8 inches, oil on multimedia artboard.

The View Outside

Monet did a couple of wonderful paintings looking out of the windows at the Louvre.  I think he was there to copy a painting but found the view outside as, or more, interesting.  I always look out of museum windows when I can, especially at the Louvre. 18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.

Draw Something

It was still sunny, but chilly.  My goal was to stop somewhere and draw something. In a large open field, with a few trees, I drew as quickly as possible since the light was fading.  Field Farm in Williamstown, MA.  9x12 inches, pencil on paper.

Crossing the Seine

 Pont Royal crossing the Seine River in Paris.  6x8 inches, oil on linen panel.

View Out The Window

A view out of a window at the Louvre.  This one's a study for a larger painting.  6x8 inches, oil on linen panel.

A Kind of Light

A view down Sloan Road in Williamstown, MA.  This kind of light is only available on late autumn afternoons.  18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas. 

Exhibition Award

My painting in the 2022 Rockport Art Association & Museum National Show received the Paul Goodnow Memorial Award for Traditional Landscape in Oil. I’m delighted and honored, as well as deeply grateful, because the exhibition has so many great artworks in it. Thank you. The exhibition runs through December 31.

Just Playing

Every now and then (it should be more often) I give myself permission to just fool around with paint and not worry about the next masterpiece.  Here I'm just playing with another Seine postcard scene near Notre Dame.  6x8 inches, oil on linen panel.