Mixed Media Winter Weather

Frozen Pond, Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, watercolor, acrylic, pastel and ink on mixed media paper.  

Winter Hoosic

Hoosic River, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, watercolor, acrylic and pastel on Bristol paper.  

Rising Greylock

Greylock from Sloan Road, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, watercolor, gouache and pastel on Bristol paper.  Whenever I walk down Sloan Road, the mountain rises up above me. 

Oblong Long View

 Oblong Road View, Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Merry Christmas!

Appreciating Spring

Old Milk Shed, Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, acrylic and pen and ink on Bristol paper.  We can appreciate Spring all the better because we have to put up with Winter.  

Winter Hoosic

Hoosic River at Stone Beach, Williamstown, MA.  12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  From a visit to Stone Beach a few days ago.  Now the snow is all gone.

Still Playing

Portico, Nice. 8x10 inches, acrylic, pastel, pen and ink on Bristol paper.  I'm still playing with different ways of marking a piece of paper.  This one is inspired by a Ken Howard drawing from his book Inspired by Light: A Personal View

For the Fun of It

Corner of Oblong and Sloan Roads, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, acrylic wash and pen and ink.  This one I did just for the fun of it.

Fourth Avenue

Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn.  12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A memory of a view north near Garfield Place.

A Booster Rocket

Cow Feeder, Sloan Road, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, acrylic and pen and ink.  On Sloan Road there's an old barn, falling apart, a wild unkempt tree, and a cow feeder that looks like the remnant of a booster rocket.  

Half-Asleep Auto

Dean Street Auto, Brooklyn.  8x10 inches, acrylic paint with pen and ink on Bristol paper.  This dark van struck me as a half-asleep creature of some kind.

A Boat Drawing

Rocky Neck Boat, Gloucester, MA. 8x10 inches, acrylic wash and pen and ink on bristol paper. I'm playing with my new pen, applying wash first and then using the pen.  This way the ink will not run, and the lines and wash edges don't matchup giving some vibrancy to the drawing.

Brooklyn Pissarro

Union Street Bridge, Brooklyn. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  This view reminds me of paintings by Camille Pissarro.

 

Brooklyn Street Corner

Union and Nevins, Brooklyn. 12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.  After a brief interlude in Paris (see previous post), I'm back to a memory of a Brooklyn street corner.

Pont Royal

 Pont Royal, Paris.  12x16 inches, oil on linen canvas.   

Mount Greylock

Mount Greylock from Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, pencil, charcoal, watercolor and pastel on paper.  A mixed media drawing that I started on location and completed in the studio.  

The Open Door

 Classon Avenue, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas. Late afternoon memory.

Looking Left

Corner Crossing, Brooklyn.  9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  After a brief shower at Franklin and Sterling Place.

A Late Afternoon

St. Mark's Place, Brooklyn.  9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A late November afternoon memory of the sun shining.

Grand and Colorful

Grand Avenue, Brooklyn.  9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Between Dean and Gergen is this colorful auto repair site.  

Grand Brooklyn Cubist

Grand Avenue, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  This cubist view is a memory.  All has changed.

Dean at Classon

Dean at Classon, Brooklyn.  9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas. Every street corner is a natural composition.

Shuttle Bridge Memory

 Shuttle Bridge, St. Marks Place, Brooklyn.  16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  A revised memory.

Late Day Dean Street

 Dean Street, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on gesso panel.  A view late in the afternoon.

Atlantic Avenue

The Open Trunk, Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on gesso panel.  

Variation on a Sidewalk

Dean Street Near Classon, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on gesso panel.  A Brooklyn tradition: parking on the sidewalk.  This series could be called "variations on a sidewalk."

Approaching Atlantic

Approaching Atlantic on Grand Avenue, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on linen mounted to panel.  

Yellow Door

 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.  9x12 inches on gesso panel.  Early morning with a yellow door and a pinwheel composition.

Brooklyn Corner

 Washington at Dean, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel. 

Fall Cornfield

 Fall Cornfield, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  

The Light of Luce Road

Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Late this afternoon I set up at the top of the aptly named Luce Road to paint the light and shadows.  

Quick Expression

Field Farm View North, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, mixed media on mixed media paper. Mixed media allows for quick expression.

 

Field Farm Thicket

Field Farm Thicket, Williamstown, MA.  8x10 inches, mixed media on mixed media paper.  I'm experimenting with mark makers.

Multi-media Greylock

Greylock from Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, multi-media on multi-media paper.  I used charcoal pencil, watercolor, pastel, acrylic gouache and fixative.

Brooklyn Dumpster

Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. 9x12 inches, oil on linen mounted to panel.  I haven't done a dumpster for a while.  Another reminiscence.

Cadillac from Schoodic

Mount Cadillac from the Schoodic Peninsula. 9x12 inches, oil on linen mounted to panel.  A reminiscence.

Looking Up Toward the Top

Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  I set up out of harm's way in the field looking up toward the top of the road.

Camden Schooner

 Schooner Mary Day, Camden, ME. 9x12 inches, oil on mounted linen.  

Crash Painting

Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  This afternoon I set up in the field looking down the road, not in the ditch, though I thought about it.  Thankfully I didn't because, as I started to paint, a group of motorcyclists roared by and one crashed exactly where I was painting four days ago.  He was ok, but his bike was not.

Greylock from Sheep Hill

 Mount Greylock from Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA.  9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.

From the Ditch

Luce Road, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  I stood in the ditch to paint this one. Interestingly I've painted several versions of this view (all from the ditch) and they are all sold.  Maybe I should paint in a ditch more often.

It Wasn't Far

Hay Bales, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  So, I walked around the hay fields this afternoon, getting my exercise, and stopped at the round hay bales when I saw the triangles of the old cow barn behind them.  Of course, I had to go back to the car to get all my painting gear, but it wasn't far.

Camden Harbor

Camden, ME.  9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  A plein-air view of Camden Harbor from Harbor Park.

Drawbridge at Perkins Cove

Drawbridge at Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, ME. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel. This started as a plein air but I did more in the studio.  

Perkins Potpourri

Perkins Cove, Ogunquit, ME. 9x12 inches, oil on linen canvas.  The fishing boats stack up and overlap to become a potpourri of paint.

Nubble Lighthouse

Nubble Lighthouse, York, ME.  11x14 inches, oil on gesso panel.  When I first saw the Nubble Lighthouse from a distance, I thought it was reachable by land.  That illusion ended at the water's edge.  Here's a painterly illusion.

Simple This Time

Dirt Road, Williamstown, MA.  9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  I opted to keep it very simple this time. I was no doubt helped by having to move myself and easel out of the way several times to avoid the dust clouds from a huge truck going back and forth from a nearby field where cornstalks were being ground up.

The Megunticook River

Harbor, Camden, Me.  9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  A view of the harbor, also called the Megunticook River, seen from Harbor Park in Camden, Maine. 

Like A Dried-up Riverbed

Dirt Road, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel. The farm dirt road separating the pasture from the corn field is like a dried-up riverbed.  

Never The Same River

Hoosic River from Stony Beach, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel.  The philosopher says that it's never the same river, so I felt free to paint it again.