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! 

 

Coastal Fog, Plein Air

6"x8" oil on linen mounted on archival panel

$200

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The fog comes 

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

-Carl Sandburg

I love Sandburg's image of the still, quietness of a foggy day. Last week when I went out to paint this - difference in appearance to my previous days on the marsh out at Barn Island were quite interesting. The colors do go rather 'soft' and grayed. I've begun a large (30"x36") studio painting from one of the previous studies, still in the middle of that!