"Late Afternoon Sky" Pastel by Judy Wilder Dalton

"Late Afternoon Sky"

Pastel

Sanded Paper

7.5 x 9.5

A late afternoon sky just before sunset on a cold and windy afternoon.​

Judy Wilder Dalton

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"Winter Field" - Thaw Malin iii

"Winter Field", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

This view of the Allen Farm, across the field and out to sea, while usually warm and inviting, was today cold and windblown. I stepped out of my vehicle to gather my paints and stepped back in quickly to paint from the warmth of the van. As the shadows of the cedars along the fence line lengthened and finally engulfed the field with blue, I thought about the warmth of summers past, swimming and napping on the distant beach. My daydream collapsed as a car pulled up beside me and Robin jumped out bearing the gift of an unscheduled hot chocolate… Yum!

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Snow Fog" - Thaw Malin iii

"Snow Fog", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

Meanwhile, with the cold snow cover and warm air above, the landscape view softened from the snow fog. Overhead the gray cloud cover gently misted and rained dictating painting be done from inside my van. Though it was warm enough to create without gloves, the 4 inches of slushy wet snow also made me happy to paint from the driver's seat…

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"West Chop Meadow" - Thaw Malin iii

"West Chop Meadow", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

My inner voice told me to go to West Chop to paint this afternoon. I thought I was supposed to go all the way to the beach and jetty. The universe had a different idea. How about a January sailboat out and about in the middle of a warmish day…? (There were actually 2 sailboats out, but only this one caught my fancy.)

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Sheep, Allen Farm" - Thaw Malin iii

"Sheep, Allen Farm", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I caught a glimpse of these sheep as I was driving by. A quick turn around and pull over and I was painting. Wind was blowing with rain threatening on the radar screen as I tried to capture the moment. I jumped in the van, thinking I could finish in the driver's seat as the rain began, but the sheep had other ideas and headed toward the barn. I returned another cloudy day to finish…

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Menemsha Pond" - Thaw Malin iii

"Menemsha Pond", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

The gray sky from the last few days and the wet weather have accentuated what colors there are in the winter landscape. Darks are darker and they push the lights to seem lighter. Everything will change once the sun comes back, drying the darks to a lighter value and adding shadows and bright light areas. Right now, I can't wait…

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Sheriff's Meadow Fog" - Thaw Malin iii

"Sheriff's Meadow Fog", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

Living in town for the winter has its bonuses like walking to the movies or a restaurant. But when I start to miss all the open fields and water views of Chilmark and up-island, I remember I have access to this little sanctuary behind the house. I have done 10 or 20 paintings around Sheriff's Meadow over the years. Yet, when I think I have "found" the last painting I could ever create here, up pops something new due to weather, season, time of day, light, or in this case pruning and mowing off the path. I left for a walk around the pond a half hour before sunset. Usually I would carry my gear with me. This evening, fog was rolling by, there would be no sunset just a darkening of the daylight. So I walked empty handed. Half way 'round the pond proper is a spillway, bridge and this view of Butler's Mudhole. Much tree damage had happened due to the last 2 storms. The caretaker's clean up included brush cutting around and under an old, damaged willow to a dry bit of grass by the property edge. Stepping there to photo this view I knew I had a new painting to do. Having raced back to the house/studio to get my paints, I set up quickly and worked down from the horizon starting with the hedge and little bathhouse with my largest brush. Landscapes are fairly quick to paint, if you think about them for a minute. Most brush movement is horizontal, stopping only to clean brush and mix and change colors. The one thing which stops a quick landscape is a strong vertical item in the scene, requiring cutting in around the object and thus ceasing the flow of brushwork. The bathhouse, the only vertical, was tiny and did not slow me down. I saved the sky until last, in case it caught a blush of color as the sun set off in the fog. Canada Geese arrived in "v" formations looking for a place to bed. I held my ground until last light when geese moved into pond and fog rendered me invisible…

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Filly In The Field" - Thaw Malin iii

"Filly In The Field", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

This white horse has been tempting me to paint it for many months. In the mid to late afternoon of a sunny day, its white coat is really illuminated against the darkness of the wood beyond. Today was the perfect time to capture the horse on canvas. Even the deer hunters draped in orange who crept out of the woods behind it could not spoil the scene. (I was positioned at the side of the road and knew they would not shoot in my direction)...

The value of this work of art is $550 USD, but, as my gift to you, for the 7 days of the auction each piece is in from the day it is created, you may start bidding at $100 (before the price becomes $550)… This is my way of saying thank you for enjoying my work and keeping me creating new ones almost everyday. Your interest stimulates and inspires me and has made me a better painter for it.

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"Distant Dunes" - Thaw Malin iii

"Distant Dunes", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

Out of the breeze in a sunny location with Africa just over the far dunes (thousands of miles away), I studied one of my favorite trees. Its leaves, I thought, were brown, in reality were a dark shade of red. As the sun popped in and out between the clouds, the leaves turned on and off from illuminated red to a duller red/brown...

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"Along The Way To Squibnocket" - Thaw Malin iii

"Along The Way To Squibnocket", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

The glacier left Chilmark a roly-poly landscape full of kettle holes, drumlins and clay and rock. The boulders, rocks and erratics have been put to use as split granite fence posts, foundations and chimney stones. The most visible of all uses are the stonewalls. Some farmers would have fun in the winter months with sticks of dynamite. They would blow up the larger boulders to make more manageable for walls and jetties. Walls like this one, high on a hill, were made with spaces between the stones to accommodate the gales and keep the walls still standing. It also did not hurt that it cost few stones to make the walls. If you were a rabbit, raccoon, otter or muskrat you would also appreciate the porosity of these boundary markers…

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"Lace Wall" - Thaw Malin iii

"Lace Wall", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

In the evening, I walked into the woods in North Tisbury expecting to find ripe blueberry bushes. Instead I found grove after grove of beech trees surrounded by huckleberry bushes and oaks. Beeches are singularly different than other forest dwelling trees in that they send out a root system which subdues all other root systems. The result is that from one well established tree, a grove of many others soon circle around the first. Walking from a green forest floor, suddenly into a beach grove 60 to 100 feet tall is like walking into a huge green tent with an orangey/tan dried leaf floor and all the green leaves are where the cotton canvas of the tent would be. In this particular grove I discovered the starting point of a lace stonewall built 200 or 300 years ago. As stonewalls go, a lace wall is at once economical for the builders and friendly towards the wind and the smaller animals. The holes mean less stones required, less wind resistance, and free passage for bird and beast from one side to the other…

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"South Side" - Thaw Malin iii

"South Side", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I don't know what I was expecting to find when I went out to paint here. I was intrigued by the stonewall first. I came back to look a second time and saw the raking shadows beyond. That was all I needed…

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"Farm Field" - Thaw Malin iii

"Farm Field", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

The sun lit up this field as I passed by. The thunderheads off in the distance also caught my eye. Luckily, they remained there while I painted…

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"Storm Passes" - Thaw Malin iii

"Storm Passes", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I have resisted painting this scene with this barn on many occasions. Not that I don't love the red of the barn in contrast to the green of the landscape, but, it just is not the style of typical local barn...

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"Hay to The Barn" - Thaw Malin iii

"Hay to The Barn", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

As one of my friends said, I "have hay fever". This field, with the barn at the bottom and the hay at the top, was too much for me to drive past more than 3 times today and not stop to paint. The color of the barn doors is just enough to energize all the surrounding greens. The late afternoon sun gives it extra drama as it rakes across the pasture...

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Up Island Spring - Thaw Malin iii

"Up Island Spring", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I found myself at friends' summer house with this beautiful evening view happening, friends not home, but housepainter's ladder left against the upstair balcony. What a glorious vista from on high! Thank you friends, and you know who you are!!!

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Crackatuxet - Thaw Malin iii

"Crackatuxet", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

A favorite corner of South Beach. I especially love this collection of last century buildings. This is what the Vineyard will always be to me, small scale, happy, close to the land and ocean. Of course, my vision is incomplete without summer, too, but off season has its own pleasures...

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Cranberry Bog - Thaw Malin iii

"Cranberry Bog", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I painted here in late afternoon light over two years ago. Driving by the other day, I couldn't resist creating it again in morning light with the tree shadows rippling across the drive...

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December Tree - Thaw Malin iii

"December Tree", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

I have enjoyed this view over many years while walking past and through into a more enticing angle. Today the wind was moving too fast and I settled in the lee of a pine tree grove. The sky gave me glimpses of greatness, but the clouds held only for seconds and were gone...

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Cattails - Thaw Malin iii

"Cattails", this is a small painting, 6" x 8", oil on canvas panel.

This is part of the view behind my winter studio in Edgartown, Ma this season. It is about a 4 minute walk from the house to the edge of Sheriff's Meadow Pond behind me. Eel Pond is off to the left with the Sound beyond. This was one of my favorite haunts when I was a little boy. I first painted the little mud hole pond in the middle-ground in 1974 and have returned to paint here many times. There are few walkers on the paths around the pond this time of year, but I often think the winter colors are more spectacular than the summer foliage...

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