The Dome from Stone Hill

Stone Hill View, Williamstown, MA. 9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  From this vantage point on Stone Hill, the horizontalness of the Clark constrasts nicely with the beautiful arch of The Dome in Vermont.  I once climbed The Dome.  The exact top was glacier-scoured stone, but the trees around it were so tall that no view was available.

Art and Nature

Entrance to the Pottery Studio, Pownal, VT.  16x20 inches, oil on linen canvas.  When I painted a plein air view of the studio entrance a month ago, I felt that the boundaries of the studio and nature were overlapping.  This is a studio painting with the same theme.

The Hot Kiln

The Hot Kiln, Pownal, VT.  12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  From my shady spot under a tree, I observed and painted the kiln, now cooling but still fiery hot at 1400 degrees, after the previous day's firing. 

 

The New Wood Pile

The Kiln and the Wood Pile, Pownal, VT. 12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  The weather allowed the sun to appear today, so I headed to the kiln to paint the new wood pile before it disappeared into the consuming fire.  The wood pile offers a nice contrast with all the surrounding green.

Everlasting

Open Gate, Pownal, VT. 12x12 inches, oil on linen panel.  The wind had its moments today moving my umbrella around and threatening to flip my easel. I wanted to paint this view because I like the shadows on the grass.  Something everlasting about them even though they move.  

 

Unlit and Aflame

The Kiln, Pownal, VT.  8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel. The other day I decided to push this painting a bit further on site:  a quiet, unlit place of fire amidst the flaming greenery of spring. 

The Kiln in Pownal

The Kiln, Pownal, VT. 8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel.  A second onsite painting from two days ago.

The Pottery Studio

The Pottery Studio, Pownal, VT. 12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.  The sun, the beautiful sun, stayed all day and kept moving across the sky in coordination with the shadows on the ground.  

Dooryard with Lilacs

Dooryard with Lilacs Blooming, Pownal, VT.  9x12 inches, oil on canvas panel.  A new painting venue, so of course I went for a complicated composition.  My initial goal is to include part of a structure in each painting (made when the sun appears).

Rainy Intersection

Rainy Intersection, Bennington, VT.  12x16 inches, oil on canvas panel.  Sometimes while waiting for the light to change, I wonder if what I see could become a painting.
 

Stone Hill View

View from Stone Hill, Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on canvas panel.  The Clark Art Institute is down there and the Dome higher up in Vermont.  

Main Street

Manchester, Vt. 12x24 inches, oil on linen panel.  A view down Main Street towards the Northshire Bookstore from ten years ago.

A Vermont Cabin

 A Vermont cabin: a memento of a thoreauvian retreat.  9x12 inches, oil on linen panel.

Like This Painting

Sometimes things seem like this painting.  In any case, it's a view of Caspian Lake in Greensboro, VT, for the ephemera series of things that don't last long.  12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.

Caspian Lake

Caspian Lake in Greensboro, VT. 12x16 inches, oil on linen panel.

Visual Ephemera

 More visual ephemera: Caspian Lake in Greensboro, VT after the storm. 18x24 inches, oil on linen canvas.

A Theory of Painting

Another Caspian Lake after the rain stopped.  I thought I would write a theory of painting from this deceptively simple composition, but my mind refused to cooperate fully.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

The Second Version

Another quick visit to beautiful Caspian Lake in Greensboro, Vermont: this time battling the changing weather.  I learned that if it rains on my gouache painting, I get a spotted gouache painting.  This is the second version on top of the spotted version.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.

Second Caspian

The second gouache sketch from the visit to Caspian Lake in Vermont. 6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.  

Caspian Lake

A quick trip to Vermont yielded two gouache sketches done at Caspian Lake.  6x8 inches, gouache on mixed media paper.