Spring Pasture

Spring Pasture-Cook Farm:
Holyoke Range
Hadley
Oil on Canvas: 9x12: Quickly, in Plein Air:
 I love cows in fields; but by the time it came to paint the cows in this field
they had wandered off  to greener pastures.

May Day Plein Air

Spring Meadow Westhampton MA
Painting quickly on a chilly Spring Morning
Oil on linen
9x12

Ice Fishing

Ice Fishing- plein air   painted from the warm side of my window...Oil on Linen 14x18.
Even when it's bitter cold and the wind blows, there are groups of ice-fishermen
out and about on "our" lake. Some congregate into groups; others hang out by themselves.

Love plein air...

Love plein air; Quotations from "Hawthorne on Painting" by Charles W. Hawthorne

"Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked — start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost. Put off finish — make a lot of starts.  Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly. Swing a bigger brush — you don't know what you're missing. Paint what you see, not what you know. To see things simply is the hardest thing in the world."

En plein air...really!

En plein air..9x12 oil on panel

Today the thermometer rose into the mid  40'sF ...absolutely balmy after weeks of freezing weather...so here it is...my first plein air sketch for 2013!  Shutesbury: Susanne's Barn.