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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Plein-Aire Class New Hamburg July 2012

This morning's class was held at the New Hamburg Marina- a small 19th century hamlet of buildings on the Hudson which is nestled at the mouth of Wappingers Creek.

Plein-Aire Hyde Park Marina July 2012

We had a plein-aire class today...Sunday mornings everyone!... at the Hyde Park Marina, just north of Marist College. For most sunny day morning scenes the emphasis is on the great Morning Sky Progression...i.e., the two overlapping progressions of the horizon to zenith of the vault and the strengthening morning sun vortex that emanates from the East.