A little over four years back I participated in a workshop with my friend Garin Baker in upstate New York. Garin's studio is in New Windsor, about 60 miles north of New York City. The Hudson is a wide, estuarial body, which means it has tides that extend as far as Newburgh, where we painted, that reverse its flow. That is, the water flows either north or south depending on the ocean.
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| "5-19-19 (The Hudson)," oil on panel, 9x12 |
This view of the river faces southeast, with a mountain called Storm King along the right side of the painting. The day was windy with low scudding clouds, and the river washed onto the shore in small waves kicked up by the weather. We painted at this location almost all day.
When a fellow painter saw this one online she commented on the flock of birds in the sky, but the truth was those "birds" are gnats, caught in the wet oil paint as I went along. When that happens it's a simple matter to wait for the paint to dry before brushing off the intruders. I took this photo before I cleaned the surface. My initials are scratched into the painted surface, one of the indications that the work was completed outdoors.
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