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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Jamestown Afternoon

Jamestown Afternoon
Oil on canvas, 16 x 20
sold

My painting in the landscape
Just for fun, I thought I'd show you what the landscape that I was painting looked like when I was painting it.

This is just a small inlet near the Jamestown Bridge. Something municipal - the transfer station? the water treatment station? was just up the hill behind me. I wonder if this is a beach that anyone ever uses for anything. It has the feel of an afterthought, really - but I bet in the summer, people use it.

At any rate, it was a gray old day, and I found I really liked it. Love the sky, and the gray sweep of the beach. Seagulls squawked at me, and one guy came along and let his dog run here.

Minutes after I finished the painting, a snow squall blew in. Whew!