Sunday, September 13, 2020
Greylock Works
By chance we visited Greylock Works last night for outdoor dining. The meal was wonderful, but driving out, I saw something else wonderful. I came back this afternoon to make a couple sketches, one in oil and the other in charcoal pencil, while the sun lasted. 9x12 inches.
Labels:
berkshires,
cityscape,
Greylock Works,
North Adams,
oil,
pencil
Nobody
While working on this one, I kept expecting the cows to show up, but they never did. The farmer has been working in the upper fields: the tractors have torn up the dirt road. But I didn't see him either. 9x12 inches, oil on panel.
Labels:
berkshires,
landscape,
oil,
plein air,
williamstown
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Rising Curtain
A dark cloud from the day I did the other one: this dark cloud rose up like a curtain. May all dark clouds rise up like curtains and disappear. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
Labels:
clouds,
landscape,
oil,
plein air,
Sloan Road,
williamstown
Friday, September 11, 2020
Busy Road
After the sun came out, I went back to my favorite dirt road. While I was there, it was busy. The farmer brought three trailer loads of young cows to add to the herd. I was told the next step for the herd is being bred to become dairy cows. The bull, who I was told is not trustworthy, is in a nearby pasture, which I will not attempt to visit.
Labels:
cows,
drawing,
farm,
landscape,
Mount Prospect,
oil,
plein air,
williamstown
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Patterns
A painting of patterns done while I was set up on the dirt road between the cornfield and the pasture facing in the opposite direction of the previously posted painting. 9x12 inches, oil on panel.
Labels:
berkshires,
landscape,
Luce Road,
oil,
pasture,
plein air,
williamstown
Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Back To The Corn Field
A painting from a couple days ago: the dirt road separating the corn field from the pasture. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Monday, September 7, 2020
Dark Cloud
Two days ago I set up to paint some small, light clouds, but they disappeared quickly, replaced by a large, dark cloud. I decided not to wait for the light clouds to return, which they eventually did an hour later. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
Labels:
clouds,
mountains,
plein air,
Sloan Road,
williamstown
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Luce Oil Sketch
An oil sketch done at the top of Luce Road yesterday morning in Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
Saturday, September 5, 2020
In The Field
A painting from my brief time yesterday in the field off of Sloan Road in Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
Labels:
berkshires,
field,
oil,
plein air,
Sloan Road,
williamstown
Friday, September 4, 2020
Still Working
This painting I started four years ago, indicating at the time, that I may continue to work on it. So I continued to work on it this past week. 30 x 32 inches, oil on canvas.
Thursday, September 3, 2020
The Old Man And The Painting
This afternoon when I started this painting I was looking toward the sun. By the time I finished it the sun was no longer shining. The painting was getting away from me. I kept hauling on the line, pulling harder and harder. I don't remember what happened next. 9x12 inches, oil on panel.
Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Bush In The Field
A small painting done in the field off of Sloan Road in Williamstown, MA. 8x10 inches, oil on panel.
A Large Painting
This is a large painting, 3 x 4 feet, that I just completed. It depicts Mount Prospect on the right as seen from the top of a hay field off of Sloan Road in Williamstown, MA. Oil on canvas.
Labels:
clouds,
commission,
field,
landscape,
mountains,
Sloan Road,
williamstown
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
In The Suburbs
While in the suburbs, I had an hour or so. I wandered around the front yard, and then the back yard, before I set up in the front yard. 9x12 inches, oil on panel.
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