All Different

A Pond, Grafton, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on linen panel.  This pond I've painted many times in recent years. Like all bodies of water, it's never the same. The pond is never the same. The paintings are all different. Each experience of painting the pond is different.

Ghost Barn

Barn, Hancock, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.  The barn no longer exists at this site. 

The Big Rock

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA.  11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.  Presumably a glacier left that big rock at the shoreline.

Shore Line

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.   

Rain Coming

Rain Coming. Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA. 11x14 inches, oil on linen canvas.  

Little Pleasant Bay

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  An August plein air painting not previously posted.  

The Tide and the Sun

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  Both the tide and the sun were going out at the same time.

Cape Cod at Orleans

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  A plein air painting not previously posted.

Bay View

 Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA.  16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  

Through the Trees

 Little Pleasant Bay Through the Trees. 9x12 inches, oil on gessobord.  

Little Pleasant Bay

Little Pleasant Bay, Orleans, MA.  9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  

 

Alternate View

The View from the Other Side of the Cabin, Williamstown, MA. 10x20 inches, oil on linen canvas. One good side deserves another. 

From the Cabin

The View from the Cabin, Williamstown, MA. 10x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  The sloping field has just been mowed.

It's All Lefts

Looking at Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel. A plein air painting I did last week.  To orient yourself, the small parking lot at the top of Bee Hill Road is located exactly at the top left at the upper left corner of the left clearing.

My Phone Rang

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.

In a Sloping Field

Yesterday's Tree. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  The tree sits in a sloping field across from Sheep Hill in Williamstown, MA. This view looks south.

Across From Sheep Hill

The Hill Across from Sheep Hill, Williamstown, MA. 12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  A second painting from yesterday.

Spring Street Pinwheel

Spring Street, Williamstown, MA. 16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas. I like the pinwheel composition and moving from shadow into the distant light.

Thursday Afternoon

Thursday Afternoon. 12x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.  If this painting reminds you of anything, it was intentional.  If not, it's ok. It depicts a portion of the Mausert Block on Park Street in Adams, MA. 

Park Street in Adams

Park Street from the Town Hall, Adams, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel. I had to work quickly this afternoon because the sun was wrapping around behind me to light up the building fronts.