Pigeon Cove In Rockport, MA

  I spent this past weekend perched on a rocky outcropping overlooking Pigeon Cove in Rockport.  I was there to work on a commission and what a treat it was!  Weathering the sunny day and keeping warm meant a winter jacket, gloves, and a hat while standing on a granite patio at the top of a rocky cliff.  The sun was warm on my back and the serenade of the surf while I painted made it a perfect day!



Here's a partial view of the cove:


The breeze off the Atlantic wasn't too stiff, so the easel remained in place and I was able to develop much of the painting on the spot.  Some of the effort is pictured here, including the block-in, and the near-finished work.

 Here is the painting at about 90% complete.
I will finish the fussy stuff back in my studio.
At day's end, the palette looked like this:

Pigeon Cove  How to get there, this is the Mapquest link.

Upcoming holiday show openings:

Maple & Main Gallery in Chester, CT, Holiday show reception on Friday, November 18th  from 5 to 8PM.  http://www.mapleandmaingallery.com/

Lyme Art Association Holiday show reception, "Deck the Walls,"  in Old Lyme, CT on Friday, December 2nd, from 5-7PM.  http://lymeartassociation.org/upcoming.php

Autumn Musings: Sketching Variations

Above is a September plein air work now hanging in its new Orleans, MA home.  It's an example of me using my full palette of 8 colors plus a neutral gray and a neutral buff. Here's the view of my setup and the painting block-in.  I was on-site for four days and developed several works.  Each day the weather and the skies were different!  An artist's dream (or nightmare).  

Right now, I'm working on several commissions and one in particular has been great fun. The final work will be a 40"x40" oil painting of a sailboat race that was fogged in, creating a wonderful mood and memory for the clients. We talked about the neutral aspect of fog and how it might be represented in various tonal palettes, since color or tone each create different effects. 

These are sketches and I was more interested in the palette combinations than real draftsmanship at this stage.   Here are results of the studies which are each about 5"x5".

7 colors plus neutral gray and buff titanium

7 Colors plus thalo green, neutral gray & neutral buff titanium

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Burnt sienna & chromatic black plus white on yellow ochre

  

Golden ochre, burnt sienna & chromatic black plus white

 Here's a closer look at my 2 preferred images!

We'll see what the client selects!  What would you pick?

The only-grays palette: tube to the left, mixed to the right

Completely tonalist using 3 tube grays and 3 mixed grays

Painting At The Old Lyme Mid-Summer Festival

http://www.youtube.com/user/bhageman2#p/a/u/0/rniAVAysdUY

Spring/Summer 2011

"Sailors Waiting For The Tide"

Here come the new works for the Spring and Summer art season.  You can find these works at:

•  my web sites
• at Lemon 'N Lyme, 19 Halls Road, Old Lyme, CT 06371
•  or at the Chatham Arts & Crafts Fairs held July 22-24 and August 13-14 at 702 Main Street, Chatham, MA.

Some of my field studies and miscellaneous experiments can be found at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, MA on July 2, 2011 between 9AM and 12PM.  It's a scramble, so be there as the door opens as I will have about 12 works, all priced to sell!

You can follow my work on this blog, including my field painting notes and videos that I upload.  In addition, you can see my full range of work at my Fine Art America website:  This site allows you to (1) contact me directly to purchase the original: OR (2) purchase prints that you select, in frames and matting that you select, delivered where you specify; OR (3) purchase greeting cards.

Some of my recently completed, original works can be had directly from Lemon ' N Lyme   and include these:

" Blue on Blue"

 "Carefree Summer Days"

 Waiting For the Tide at Dawn (sold)

"Snapper Blue or Sea Robin?"

"Waiting For the Tide"