I started this one back in April 2019 and wasn't too thrilled with it at the time. I put it up on the studio wall along with its large family of unfinished siblings and just recently returned to it. I'm much happier with it now - I think I needed to acquire the vocabulary to express the way the scene felt to me.
Oil on linen panel 10" x 12"
Schreber's Watershield is what my PictureThis app tells me these waterlily-like but smaller and more ovoid plants are called. They make nice patterns on the water.
Watercolor 4" x 6"
I started this back in May and returned to it recently. It is now at the stage I am calling "asympotschke" - when continued daubing produces ever smaller returns while never quite reaching completion.
Oil on linen panel 6" x 8"
I used my small cigar box pochade mounted on my bike to paint the view from a local abandoned golf course.
Last of the Cape batch. It was mostly cloudy, with rays of sun breaking through occasionally.
Oil on linen panel 6" x 8"
I posted the initial block-in of this earlier; I'm calling this the finished version. It's really an amalgam of many views, sketches and photos of this subject during a short stay on Cape Cod. The rocks are covered in seaweed, and change color and catch the light in constantly changing combinations depending on time of day and tides. This view is contre jour with the morning sun approaching the zenith (check out the light on the buoy), so there are dark shadows and a bit of glare on the wet rocks.
Oil on linen panel 6" x 8"
I was struck by the contrast of the sunlit foliage and the dark shadows, especially that stygian grotto on the left. The water was specked with some orangey brown stuff (pollen?) that was set off by the dark reflections.
Watercolor 4” x 6”
