Carol

West River, keeping it simple

Grey Skies, Saturday Morning

Oil on canvas, 11×14 inches. Thanks to Tish for getting me out to Spy Pond in Arlington, after years of driving by, I finally had an opportunity to paint. Very family friendly but felt like out in nature for this urbanite. The morning included very light sprinkles of rain.

A few postcards from a rooftop

Postcards – my code word for quick, small, landscape studies – if they don’t bring a smile to my lips, I wipe the canvas down. Here is the Tobin Bridge and the St. Francis spire.

And when the weather finally turns to Spring, I’m back outside.

Found this in the drafts folder – from April 16, 2016. Gorgeous day in Boston – after last weeks late snow, the magnolias are mostly very sad but the cherry blossoms are bursting out. I used the water miscible paints on this.

Feels like old times

First, this is the top of Summit Hill, Brookline, not a vista from one of our more northerly rural states. Dense foliage covers a lot. And a lovely time was had with Elissa and Andy. A year after my close encounter with vertigo, and subsequently staying far away from solvents, I was still using cooking oilContinue reading “Feels like old times”

Ready for Beacon Hill Art Walk?

– hope to see you at the Beacon Hill Art Walk, June 5, 2016 – noon til 6pm. If the rain is no worse than showers, you’ll find artists in beautiful corners, gardens and alleys on the north slope.

Fresh Air

A selection of my plein air landscapes are now hanging at the St. Botolph Club until June 10. The paintings look terrific in this space. Thanks so much to Michael Price, Carol Hartman and George Lynde of the Art Committee. Visits for nonmembers may be arranged for Wednesday afternoons.

Must be Spring

The miserable winter of 2015 left trees and shrubs in shambles. Pulling broken magnolia branches out of a snow bank, I brought them home to see if they would bloom. The flowering was only partially successful, but I was very smitten with the resulting painting and started to imagine a series in a larger format. TheContinue reading “Must be Spring”