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Above, Morning Light with Gulls, the Brooklyn Bridge. 24" X 48" Oil on linen 2010. Finally I've finished painting birds in and out of this painting. This is not a photograhic treatment. The drafting is doubled from a field drawing that exaggerated the height and reconciled two station point angles. I had no pencil or pad the morning I witnessed this light on the bridge while trudging to the office. Once I made it in to work the fog had dissipated but I wrote down my impressions of the color; creamy, rose, orange, bronze-the bridge, a silent giant emerging from the colors. It's always sympathetic to the atmospheric conditions. It remains alive.
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Wood Asters in the Loch, Central Park 18" X 24" Oil on canvas 2010
After finishing the Brooklyn Bridge painting, as a relaxation exercize, I brought this once mothballed oil wash sketch
back into the park to finish it. The original log had rotted away into the soil but there were plenty of pieces left from the October storm cleanup to model the light.
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"Wall Street Stop" oil on linen, 24" x 24', 2009. This work was completed for the, Eye on Wall Street, show at Federal Hall 26 Wall Street. The view is looking toward Broadway on Wall Street with William Street as the cross street. This painting is on consignment at the shop of the Museum of American Finance. To find their contact info please go the News/Events page of this site.
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Western Gulls on the San Francisco Head Lands. Oil on canvas, 34" X 27.5". At left is a view of the headlands at Seal Rock in San Francisco. The original field sketches were very incomplete so this painting is half reference and half invention. The fog was from Oregon, the distant rocks from California and the foreground from fantasy land.
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Left. View of Brooklyn Bridge, Water and Dover streets Manhattan. Oil on canvas, 18" X 22".
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Sunrise Through Morning Rain, Brooklyn Bridge, oil on linen, 28" x 22", 2009.This painting was completed in fits and starts while toiling through deadlines. It evolved far from the field notes as I improvised in its atmosphere.
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Brooklyn Bridge Snow Squall, oil on linen, 20" X 28', 2008. This work is based on a watercolor sketch dashed off as the storm passed over the river. Much later while cleaning the studio I found the original field sketch and realized that this version needed a swift kick in the linens. See it at the In The Studio page in the sanded down state. Stay tuned for the retooling.
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Sunrise Fog, Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on canvas, 20" X 26".
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Sunrise East River 20" X 24" oil on linen, 2011 This is out of rehab. See it in its flunk-out state in the In The Studio page.
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Firethroats-Blackburnian Warblers, Oil on Linen, 18" X 13.5" This painting was based on a field sketch of this male singing from a low branch in front of this black cherry in Central Park. It took two years to develop the painting through subsequent field color notes and museum study-skin work.
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Above, two paintings of , The Pool, at 103rd St in Central Park. The views exist side-by-side in nature. The painting on the left has been sanded down a bit and is being reworked. The painting on the right was aided by photo references but is idealized and not photo accurate. It is in a private collection. Both works are a lie.
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| This immature gull being chased by an adult captured my attention and sparked inspiration as it banked in front of the harbor pilings. I jotted down a thumbnail on a scrap of paper and then spent months collecting field notes. At the horizon the Staten Island ferry can be seen turning away from the statue of liberty.
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New York Harbor, Ring-Billed Gulls oil on linen 28" X 53" 2008
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The falcon appears as a dot above the bridge. A pair nests nearby at 55 Water St. in lower Manhattan. The original drawing for this canvas was made in many segments,( see in the studio ), over many visits to the site. It was reduced and transferred to the linen surface for the subsequent field-studio-field work.
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| Peregrine Falcon Over the Brooklyn Bridge oil on linen 15.5" X 31" 2008 |
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| A bird of the year peregrine falcon flashed past my position while I was birding the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in NYC. The young falcon did'nt get the dowitcher. The painting was made in the studio from extensive field notes and reference material. To see detail enlargements of this painting click here.
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| First Summer oil on linen 28" X 54" 1999 |
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A view of the Cariboo Valley in north central British Columbia. Oil on canvas, 2002. This painting was damaged in storage. I like the scene and will paint another version when I can dig out my field notes.
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This is a view over the terrapin nesting area at JBWR, in NYC. The refuge bondaries lie within both Queens and Brooklyn southeast of JFK airport. This mature male northern harrier mirrored the colors of the land he coursed over. Slavish attention to detail can smother the energy of a painting. The authority of realism need not banish impressionist vigour from the scene. Sometimes a blend of styles will do.
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| Circle of Blue oil on linen 32" X 40" 2000 |
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View from Marin Headlands, Oil on Canvas 25" X 20" !989 & 2010.
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Cave Entrance at the Pinnacles Sate Park, California. Oil on Canvas, 20" X 26" 1987 & 2010.
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| Cliffs at Agate Beach, Oregon, Oil on canvas, 1985-2009-2010. This painting is from a batch of old 1980's "skins" I rolled up, tucked away and forgot about. I occasionally look at them and rework some of them to play around with paint while I'm hammering away on more detailed works. One of these skins developed into the San Francisco Headlands with Western gulls seen further above on this page. This painting, at left, shows a patch of crumbling cliffs above Agate Beach near Newport Oregon. I need to check my geology. I think these reddish and greenish bands are different lahar flows and some my be from the Mount Mazama eruption that created Crater Lake. The distant blue green ridge into the horizon is Yaquina Head, an enormous flow of columnar lava and breccia from the Oregon Idaho border from 110 million years ago. As the continent has drifted that hot spot is now found under Yellow Stone National Park.
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Milarepa Lord of Nepal, oil on canvas, 1988. Milarepa was a Bodhisattva who legend tells us could take the form of a snow leopard. This image is from an old slide we found in a box in my folks garage. It including pieces from my teenage Picasso phase (yikes!). Some of this stuff is amusing, some embarrassing, and some I think worthwhile. To access the Archive page please click here.
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| To see new paintings in development and unhappy paintings sanded down for ressurection
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