Observers

Truck and Cow, Haley Farm, Williamstown, MA.  11x14 inches, oil on canvas panel.  Haley Farm is at the end of Hopper Road where the truck is permanently parked.

Remember Seeing

Farmer's Truck Graveyard. 9x12 inches, acrylic wash, charcoal pencil and pastel on paper.  I'm old enough to remember seeing this last truck when it was still alive.  Also from my visit to the site a few days ago.

Rusting Peacefully

Truck Graveyard. 9x12 inches, acrylic wash, charcoal pencil & pastel on paper.  A couple days ago I visited the farmer's truck graveyard, which is tucked away in the woods.  A beautiful blue truck that was rusting peacefully was gone. This truck is now the next one in the line of abandonment.

At the End of Hopper Road

Evey year I try to paint this truck at least once.  Since the early 90's, it's been standing in a cow pasture at the end of Hopper Road in Williamstown, MA.  9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.

Paean To Summer

The old milk shed, the hay bales, and the view across the fields to the mountains of Florida and Savoy, are just down the road from the long barn on Luce Road in Williamstown, MA.  This is also another paean to the colors of summer.  16x20 inches, oil on linen panel.

Smitten

This is my very first gouache painting completed a few minutes ago.  I'm smitten.  I used just three colors: yellow ochre, burnt sienna and ultramarine blue, with white.  6 1/2 x 8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Springtime Truck

This truck has been sitting in the cow yard next to the barn at the end of Hopper Road in Williamstown, MA. since the early 1990's (I'm told).  The location is also a major trailhead, so over a generation many people have seen it. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.

A Yellow Truck In The Snow

Yesterday was a mild sunny day in January so I drove up the last muddy stretch of Hopper Road to paint a portrait of the yellow truck.  Such a quiet and excruciatingly beautiful place.  The only noise was a cow in the barn occasionally striking the wall with a hoof.  9x12 oil on linen.

Trucked Out

The second old, abandoned farm truck from yesterday afternoon's visit to the truck graveyard: 9x12 oil on panel.   I think I'm trucked out.

Truck Day

Today was a two truck painting day.  This is the first one, a 9x12 oil on panel.

Amidst Trucks

It's not raining, so I might as well be painting.  I've included a view of my easel on site amidst the old trucks.  9x12 oil on panel.

Dinosaur Truck

The sun came out so I cheerfully set out for the truck graveyard.  This one must have been a terror when alive, with so many teeth.  9x12 oil on panel.

The Story of the Hopper and a Truck

The first painting I did this morning was a view of the Hopper.  People immediately think of Edward Hopper when I say "the Hopper" but the Hopper is the v-shaped valley visible at Haley Farm at the end of Hopper Road in Williamstown, MA.   The sun started to fade away in the early afternoon, so I went to the truck graveyard nearby.  This is a good time to visit since the hayfields are accessible and the truck graveyard is not yet overgrown with the bushes that hide the trucks.  Both paintings are 9x12 oil on panel.

The Yellow Truck in a February Thaw

It's February but the weather was warm on Monday so I drove up a muddy Hopper Road to paint the yellow truck at Haley Farm in Williamstown, MA.  The truck sits in a cow pasture deep in muck.  I used a wooden pallett, conveniently nearby, to stand on while painting.   9x12 oil on panel.

The Driest Spot

Yesterday I did my annual homage to the truck at Haley Farm at the end of Hopper Road in Williamstown, MA.  It's a very popular truck even though it's been standing at the same spot for 25 years.  Maybe that's why.  Also maybe because it kind of stands out.

Often you may read about the dos and don'ts of selecting a good vantage point to paint something.  Since this truck is parked in a cow pasture, my selection criteria was simple:  find the driest spot.  The painting is a 12x16 oil on panel.

Still Trucking

Every time I think I have this truck out of my system, I get another attack.  It's a lot of fun to paint this truck.  It's colored the way it is because someone else painted it before, probably more than once.

Iconic Truck

This truck has appealed to me from the first time I saw it, which I can't remember when that was.  I've discovered that I'm not the only one who likes it.  Anyway here's a new painting of it, 24x24 oil on canvas.  It's an old farm truck, which has had parts removed to fix other trucks.  Fortunately this one has been left in a good, approachable place, where it has become an icon for all who have seen it.

Fading

One more 9x12 pen and ink drawing of the remains of an old truck, this one fading into the foliage.

Variation

A 9x12 pen and ink with pastel washes variation of the previous truck.

Door Ajar

A 9x12 pen and ink drawing with pastel washes of an old truck in the truck graveyard.  The trucks are enveloped by weeds.  I imagine that it looks quite different in the fall, winter, and early spring.