17 Jun sadness and beauty
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Life & Art
16 Apr a most perfect mixture of sadness and beauty
I am doing well because I am painting better; I hardly know what day it is anymore. I always wanted a life like this...
27 Oct drawing out in the landscape
Once a year the Holyoke Mountain Range turns ruby red for a mere three days. The shape of Mt. Norwottuck is very hard to draw for me, but I think I am getting better at it. Tomorrow the mountain range will be grey, since the...
11 Aug How this painting, “Last Green of August,” came to be
The painting began to become interesting when it was moving forward enough that ideas began to freely present themselves. When I am not certain how to move the paint, I look elsewhere on the canvas, trusting that the hand knows. Then I look back and...
01 Aug ‘This is How I Bring You Back’
at first I was losing all of me to the dramatic down slide; daily hours at the hospital each day will do that. Then I began sliding 2 hours in the studio each day that I was not there. The hours never increased, but at...
28 Oct every artist should own a mountain
Mt. Norwottuck has a very difficult shape where it meets the sky; I have to search for it each time I draw it. Once I get it, the mountain belongs to me. I always end up at the exact same spot, after carrying my easel...
22 Oct autumn light
Everyday, (weather permitting), I am out in the landscape searching for what color the time of day, throughout the day, would form the drawing. As the clouds and light through the clouds hit the hayfield and trees yesterday, everything was in motion all the time....
29 Jun sunset, Race Point, Provincetown, Massachusetts
The sun just did not want to set. Just as the bottom of it touched the top pf the ocean, it squealed with delight, lighting up the thick clouds just above to vermillion. God pulled the sun down further into the ocean whether or not...
20 Nov Mt. Norwottuck mountain of the Holyoke Range mountains
It is easier for me to draw ocean waves than to get the shape of Mt. Norwottuck, which I have drawn so many hundreds of times that you'd think it would get easier. The mountain sits right up against the...
25 Aug a painting is never finished
The long dark shadows of late summer are heavier than the airiness of the going into summer. I went after the light in the trees, on open hay fields, on the mountains, and in the sky. I fall more in love with what oil paint...