Snowbird oil on birch panel 13 x 14 unframed but ready to hang $400
The conventional wisdom about still life painting is that it works best when you paint objects that have meaning for you. If that’s the case, this one fills the bill. When our son Gavin was just a little boy he dashed in one day all excited. He’d been to a neighborhood yard sale and had seen something he really wanted to buy for me. Of course he needed to get some money from me to buy it but it’s the thought that counts. This little bird–I guess it’s a dove–has been one of my treasures ever since. This is the second time I’ve used it in a still life. In this one what interested me was the way the light comes through the edges of the feathers, with the white of the bird echoed by the white of the snow outside.
Rushing Water III oil on birch panel 8 x 10 $250 unframed
Here’s yet another I did of the West Branch, lifted from part of a previous painting. I absolutely love rocks because they sort of paint themselves. I hope to go to Maine sometime in the future and spend days just painting rocks along the coast there.
Here’s another small piece I did recently , “cannibalized” from a much older painting. I isolated a section and painted a version of that. This is from the West Branch of the Ompomponusuc River that runs along the front of our land. The water looks bluer in the photo than it does in the painting. 
Rushing Water II oil on masonite 6 x 8 $150 unframed
Here’s one I did from a photo I took last fall when we were in Franconia, NH. It was an experiment in painting thinly and I do think that gives a certain luminosity. The lighter, thicker parts show up better and the white ground shows through the rest.
Rushing Water oil on birch panel 11 x 14 $350
