This Afternoon Now Gone

The Pond at Field Farm, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  This afternoon I painted again the corner of the pond, which I've painted many times before.  There used to be a beaver lodge here, but the owners and their home are now gone.  

The Beaver Pond

 The beaver pond in Williamstown, MA.  9x12 oil on panel.

Sticks And Dried Mud

The painter Neil Welliver gives me permission to paint beaver lodges.  I was calling them houses.  I shied away from it at first, but it's just a bunch of sticks and dried mud with an interesting shape that contrasts with and echoes its environment.  9x12 oil on panel.

Painting At The Beaver Skyscraper

At the pond at Field Farm in Williamstown, MA. with my painting and a skyscraper beaver house that I was told went up in four days.

Simple Landscape

An attempt to simplify.  A 9x12 oil sketch on paper of the beaver dam location.

Urban Beaver

Last Saturday I visited a large beaver colony in the middle of a forest in Plainfield, MA.  The above is a 9x12 oil on paper view of a swamp created by the beavers.  It's an animal version of an urban area, with all the confusion and complexity one would expect.  I saw at least two beaver dams, several ponds, and some beaver houses, as well as some beavers, and multitudes of cut down trees.