Early July has been noting but steam heat. The daily highs in the first half of the month were in the 90s and the humidity obscenely high. It's this time of year (with August and September yet to come) that get me thinking of those crisp days of fall and the thin cold air of winter. No one wishes for the ice and snow and throttling cold, of course, but just a bit of frost for a day or two could brace us for another round. Here are a few scenes that evoke cooler times.
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| "Fall Visitor," casein, 2016 |
Remember those days in fall when the leaves have just begun to turn but many trees and grasses stay green. The days are warm in the sun the evenings crisp enough for a sweater. At the edge of my woods a couple of years ago a visitor peered out to see if it was safe to emerge. Living along a water course, I see quite a lot of wildlife despite living in the center of a fair-sized city. Deer, foxes, woodchucks, the usual rabbits and squirrels, and even a stray bobcat have wandered past my studio window.
This is a casein painting on panel.
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| "City Snow," oil, 2002 |
The scene here is a city street after a late winter snowfall. The sun is already breaking through and flooding yellow light through snowy branches onto the sidewalk while someone trudges away. The image is cool enough that it sometimes makes me shiver. But the outlook is for a warming winter day, the kind of day that doesn't really feel wintry despite the snow, cheery and bright, full of promise for a new springtime .
This is oil on panel, 24x20.
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