The title of the new painting is HDT Vision. It’s a late day autumn view of Walden Pond from a few years ago. Now you know what HDT means. It turned out that the image looks equally pleasing when inverted, if you can tolerate gravel falling out of the “sky”. I’m always attracted by ambiguity and the possibility of alternative interpretations. Having cloud reflections floating on the water surface with the pond bottom peaking through and no direct view of the land-sky interface adds to the mystery of what’s going on. I also apparently I have a predilection for blue streaks, as this painting, several past ones, and some planned future ones highlight prominent, intense, blue features.

This recently completed painting is the third in a series of seasonal backyard views at our house. All of the views are sunlit in the early morning. Comparing summer, winter and autumn shows the obvious changes in vegetation, but also variation in the angle of the sun (and shadows) through the year. Nearly ten years have passed between the painting of the winter view and the summer view. New growth and loss of trees are seen when comparing the paintings.

I’ve visited the bog at Malloryville several times this spring and summer to catch the pitcher plants in bloom. This recently completed painting barely shows the bog vegetation, but the strongly rooted tree and dappled lighting really appealed to me. When creating scenes such as this one, I always think back to one particular watercolor work by Albrecht Dürer which inspired me many years ago.

Head Waters 3 is new and part of a series of paintings based on the landscape of upper Six Mile Creek. This is a location I visit during all seasons of the year and never tire of its wild beauty.