High Tide...and catching up after travels!

8"x10" oil on linen mounted on panel

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I made it back out to the marsh at Barn Island this past week. This time, it was high tide when I got there. Fortunately, I blocked in those big shapes FAST when I first set up. Why is this so crucial? Well, some times when you're out painting, not only the light changes quickly through out the day, but tidal changes can vary greatly in a very short amount of time! To make my point, here's two photos I happened to shoot while I was there. They are taken about an hour and a half to two hours apart. When I was bringing this painting to completion, the place looked quite different.

Mother Nature, you never cease to amaze me! I was really happy to see the tide as it was, I really love the shapes of land vs. water in these vast expanses of marshy areas. As it turns out, this was a study for a design option for a commission I'm currently working on. And yes, I'm very excited about it! It's great to be back home in my own studio after lots of travel time this summer.

Summer Morning, Heat Rising

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival board

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This was the second painting of the day, Wednesday morning. The heat is rising, and the bugs are getting hungry! The marsh is waking up and quite busy! Yet the temperature is still comfortable out, perhaps a stronger DEET cocktail is necessary (or I missed a spot behind my knee where one hungry horsefly persistently bothered me). 

 What our eyes see when painting from life, is so much more exciting than what a photograph can "see". 

 

It's Friday again (already!) and time for the final drawing of those water-color post-cards from France!

I'm emailing them this afternoon (Friday) and with their permission, I'll list the winners on my blog tomorrow! 

 

"Improvisation I - Variations on a Theme" Marsh and Woodlands

6"x6" oil on archival panel, $100

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Improvisation - to make a variation on a theme.  This little painting is a variation on a plein air painting that I did just recently in fall.   I'm wanting to do a much larger painting from the original, but I've made some slight alterations in color and shape/composition.  So I'm trying these out in this small piece before I jump back to a 40"x30".  

This has been a fun project for me, all these marsh paintings from Barn Island. I was going through them this afternoon, to label them, and found that I've neglected to  blog a couple of these! So, I spent the rest of the afternoon labeling paintings, photographing the two large ones I recently finished, and getting my desk organized again (well, I'm still working on that).