Spring Pasture

Spring Pasture-Cook Farm:
Holyoke Range
Hadley
Oil on Canvas: 9x12: Quickly, in Plein Air:
 I love cows in fields; but by the time it came to paint the cows in this field
they had wandered off  to greener pastures.

May Day Plein Air

Spring Meadow Westhampton MA
Painting quickly on a chilly Spring Morning
Oil on linen
9x12

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing- plein air   painted from the warm side of my window...Oil on Linen 14x18.
Even when it's bitter cold and the wind blows, there are groups of ice-fishermen
out and about on "our" lake. Some congregate into groups; others hang out by themselves.

Love plein air...

Love plein air; Quotations from "Hawthorne on Painting" by Charles W. Hawthorne

"Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked — start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. Put off finish — make a lot of starts.  Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. Swing a bigger brush — you don't know what you're missing. Paint what you see, not what you know. To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world."

En plein air...really!

En plein air..9x12 oil on panel

Today the thermometer rose into the mid  40'sF ...absolutely balmy after weeks of freezing weather...so here it is...my first plein air sketch for 2013!  Shutesbury: Susanne's Barn.

Before the Prom

Oil on Linen, 12x16
Waiting for the girls to arrive...

First Snow

Oil on canvas panel: 9x12
View from a window of the car.

Town Line

Oil in Linen 16x20. Flashes of light and texture in the afternoon.
From a reference photo snapped  through the windshield...

Sugarloaf from Under the Hill

: Oil on Linen, 14x18: View of Mount Sugarloaf from the fields.

Winter Greys

Winter, Surf Fishing:
Oil on board, 9x12

Art Show

The Old Courthouse Gallery:

Click on the underlined link to read a recent article  written when I hung the Old Courthouse Gallery show.

View from my Window

Oil sketch from my window: 9x12. The ice is forming. The open water looks like a river
The Eagle is fishing.
Red Cardinals at the feeder. 

Cathedral Beside the Road

Birches and Stone Walls along the  Road: Oil on Linen 9x12

Our road is bordered by stone walls and old farm fields which are slowly returning to forest.
First to grow in are the Birch Trees, followed in short order by Hemlock.

Actually, what motivated me about this spot, but which I wasn't able to capture...was the way the shimmering sun light bounced through the autumn leaves, as light through a stained glass window, shimmering and reflecting colors onto the rocks and woodland floor.

Autumn Birch: Norwich Lake

View from my Window:  Norwich Lake
Oil on Linen: 9x12

Windswept

Windswept: Oil on Panel: 14x18