Incoming Storm Sebego Lake, Maine
Incoming Storm - Sebego Lake Acrylic 18"x 24" This acrylic was painted on location at Harmon's Beach Sebego Lake, Maine many falls ago. I can remember the day like it was yesterday. I used a heavy french easel which I had to prop against a tree to keep it from being knocked over by the strong wind gusts. It was so cold, that when I finished painting, I couldn't drop the paint brush, I needed to remove it from my right hand with my left. I was focused on the water and sky, amazed at all the colors that we often think of a simply a grey day. Like any painting I look at later, there are some things that I would do differently now, but i was and still am pleased with the effort. I captured things that I could never have imagined because it was painted start to finish on location (en plein air). When I look at this today, I am transported back to that moment in time. I can hear the crashing windblown surf, and feel and hear the howl of the wind and the s