A View of Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA. 12x24 inches, oil on linen panel. Just as I was blocking in this painting my phone rang. The property owner was calling to alert me that a bear had just passed by the house and was headed up the hill in my direction. I now painted looking in two directions, forward and over my shoulder. Nothing. I continued to paint for a while. Then I heard a branch break loudly. Hello? What's that? I was painting at the junction of two ATV paths. I moved a little backwards and looked down the path into the forest and saw a big bear looking at me. I may be reading a lot into what I saw, but he seemed embarrassed to have been so clumsy, or apologetic for disturbing me. He was just trying to see what I was doing. In any case, he turned around and ran off deeper into the woods and I continued to paint.
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