August 22nd & 23rd, 2014
Kittery Point, Maine
Oil on Canvas, 18 x 24 in
(sold)

This day began as a partly cloudy day, with nice big stretches of blue sky… but over the course of the 4 hours I was there painting, it gradually became overcast, and then gradually the silver clouds became steely. I got caught following the steady course of change, keying and rekeying my water to match the sky. I – it was an odd day and I personally was feeling off key – perhaps why I was so ready to abandon all attention to the piers and houses along the shore and instead just scramble to stay in tune with the water. When I had it back here to complete yesterday, I could have used one of the photos I took to fill in all the details I had ignored – several houses along the shore, a long pier with a few stray boats, seagulls. I could have stuck something – anything – there on the right to balance it all out. But it had nearly dried, and there wasn’t much I could do but fill in the blanks and polish the edges and call it a day.