In a Fog at Gray's Beach Kingston

It was overcast and gray when we set out to drop off the car for an oil change and find a place to paint until it was ready.   Kingston is located between Duxbury and Plymouth and just about a half mile south of the Jones River estuary is a nice town beach called Gray's Beach.   Its name was perfect for this cloudy, it-could-rain-anytime day and fortunately there were picnic tables with big sturdy overhangs.  

Fog sat over the water and shifted in and out during the time we were painting.    Just after painting in the gray cloudy sky and matching water, the fog thinned out revealing patches of blue sky.    The brightening did not last though, and that was fine with me since I was well along in my painting which was predominantly shades of gray.



Gray's Beach Kingston

We had several visitors curious about what we were painting.   A Dad, his two school aged daughters and son with a skateboard were particularly interested in the process.  I asked, and they offered me their opinions on whether to include the lonely motorboat moored off the beach.    We came to an agreement that adding the boat would not improve the composition, and as the auburn haired daughter noted, the scene should remain unblemished with this detail.   Well said!

This painting offered the reminder that a simple design, especially of our beautiful New England landscape can offer a kind of attraction that can rival a more complicated or more colorful piece.