October Oil Studies

A few oil sketches completed over the last few weeks of October

Gunderson Plein Air 2012- Samuel Morse Estate

This is a video with impressions of this last Sunday's plein air  (peinture sur le motif ) class at the Samuel F.B. Morse estate "Locust Grove" in Poughkeepsie, New York. From Sunday's class...it's all about MASSING- only way you can really see the vortex. Piecing together the mosaic of a three dimensional ball of light against an atmosphereic progression seems ludicrious-a waste of time as it's easier to squint down , hold on to the masses, let brush pressure calibrate the changes of value and tone.

Frank Mason on Velasquez

Classic scenes of the maestro himself expounding on Velasquez and seventeenth century Spanish painting. It should be easy to recognize, for those who are fortunate to have been there, the friendly confines of Harry Burnham's barn, where on any given Saturday in June, the landscape class assembled for the weekly critique.
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Shattemuc Plein Air Paint Out & Auction 2012

This weekend we attended the Shattemuc Yacht Club's annual paint out event, held at the clubhouse marina in Ossinning  on the Hudson. Right across the river looms Hook mountain, which glowed reddish and as the morning mists burned off . A very nice motif.

Hudson Reverie 16" x 24" oil / linen

Plein Aire class at Dockside Cold Spring on the Hudson

Hey All- getting a little carried away with videos tonight.. Here's a vid of today's class at Dockside at Cold Spring on the Hudson.