the fisherman
Here's a new painting on the easel, in progress. I'm excited for this one. Robert Frost wrote "A poem starts with a feeling, it begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a home sickness."
I'm painting this piece both down at the Whitecap commercial fishing docks located here in Islip, and in my studio. I've been studying Sorolla extensively, his working techniques, and I've found that he developed a similar synthesizing approach. On site painting is vital, absolutely vital- there are things that happen in nature that I could never author. But then, it's also necessary to return to the studio with the model, and paint from life. Lastly, I've been doing more painting alone, no model and not on site, and pulling the whole piece together in my studio, from my imagination.
