Silence

I think this will be the last one for a while on this theme.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Summer, Softly Fading

I started this painting yesterday as a noon time painting, but it wasn't working, so I decided to go back to the margins of the day and dashed it off this morning. I've a recent painting, Near Twilight Above Weymouth hanging over the fireplace and I've come to really like that piece -- it's more subtle than the photo, and so I made this one a variation on that theme and subject, with a little of Longsands Island thrown in for good measure.


18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

A Forest Lane

Today's doodle -- just playing around with paint and ideas, but with nothing too defined in mind. I only keep these studies because I have like $.50 worth of materials invested in them.  I also -- for no good reason -- fiddled with yesterday's doodle as well.  Below:

both are 12x16" 30x40 cm acrylic on hardboard NOTE: Both have been painted over with other scenes, I didn't want to leave these things lying around where they could eventually be found...

Fence Row in the Morning Mist

Just a doodle in paint. The seasons are beginning to change and it is usually foggy in the morning when I go out for my bike ride. In the mist the still green trees do not have a lot of color, mostly just shape, and this painting reflects that experience. 

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

The Sea (Unseen) Beyond the Dunes

I've been working on this board for several days. The sky was always ok, nothing else seemed to work, so I decided to basically make it a sky painting, if only to make my two paintings a week production target...

16x24" 40x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Longsands Around About Sunset

Today's variation on the current theme. Yesterday's scrapped off version of this scene had a higher horizon and a pool of water to reflect the sky in the foreground, which did not work.

16x24" 40x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Along the Sandy Road

I haven't done a painting in this size for a bit and I'm getting tired of the one I have on the wall, so I painted this.  Nothing special, a variation on what I've been doing lately.  I also added a little water to yesterday's painting on the right: a minor addition not worth a re-posting.

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard

Overcast Morning, Longsands Island

Another of my rather understated studies of Longsands Island, this time on an overcast morning.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Twilight Songs

Cries of the seagulls, the sigh of the wind in the long grasses, the hiss of the surf, a twilight song.

16x24" 40x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Hill Crest at Sunset

Another of my abstract paintings pretending to be a landscape.

12x24" 30x60cm acrylic on hardboard

The Long Promised Nude - slight rev.

I tried to fix faces in past efforts -- trying to make them more realistic or something -- only to loose the look I happened upon and liked.  In this case there is very little to the face -- it does not bear looking at for long -- but I like the impact it has, nevertheless. However, the nose bugged me, so I took my courage in hand and very slightly modified it knowing that  this time the paint was dry, I could wash the new paint off if things turned nasty. I kept my changes to a minimum, so the face still does not bear looking at it for long -- but the nose is a little better and bugs me less.

The Long Promised Nude

Every artist is required to paint 1) a self portrait, and 2) a nude.  (Plus a masterpiece, but that is determined by the secret committee.) These requirements are not waived even if you're a landscape painter.  So here's my long promised nude. Don't blame me, I'm a landscape painter. My self portrait can be found earlier in the blog -- mid-winterish.  I hope the secret Ancient Order of Painters’ Lodge is happy...

16x12" 40x30cm acrylic on hardboard

Above Hamlet Cove (revised)

As promised, the revised version. A little too literal for me, but oh well, enough is enough.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Above Hamlet Cove

I'm not sure about this one -- I usually paint in only two planes -- a foreground shape against a background more or less of light.  In this case we have the headlands in the middle distance that I'm not sold on yet.  I also have to think about the sky. I usually avoid blue skies as much as possible as they seem to darken a picture  instead of providing the light, so I may lighten up the sky a bit as well... Tomorrow.

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

Upper Shore Road At Dusk (revised)

Friday's painting revised, eliminating a lot of the blue shadows and revising the treeline as well a the sky a bit.  An improvement, but still not exactly what I was going for, but I don't believe I can get there from here...

18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard