Saturday, June 30, 2012

Mount Sugarloaf plein air sketch

Vine Charcoal layout on a piece of linen
Here I'm beginning to think about how to modify the colors to indicate the dramatic ariel recession.
It was slow going and I will have to go back to finish the piece. 

Here I am back in  Western Massachusetts after a painting holiday in Maine. And there is no grander place to paint than at the top of Mount Sugarloaf on a hot summer's day.
Like White Head, on Monhegan Island, this iconic view has been painted and photographed hundred's of times.

I took out the rail fence in the foreground

Adding to our pleasure, a Red Tailed Hawk flew back and forth, calling and swooping, between our perch on the observation tower and the fields below.

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