'Windy Day at Fort Hill' Cape Cod, MA An Original Plein Air Oil Painting by Claire Beadon Carnell

'Windy Day at Fort Hill'
(Cape Cod, MA)

© Claire Beadon Carnell

Oil
Plein Air

12 x 16

Finally, after a week of being home from Cape Cod,

I was able to unload my paintings!  This particular 

painting was painted on Sept. 11, on a very windy day.

I hadn't planned to go to Fort Hill to paint, but 

stopped there so my husband could see what a 

beautiful place it was.  Of course when I saw the

way the wind was blowing the trees and the goldenrod

in the foreground, my muse started to call...

 

While we were there (at about the time the first airplane

 hit the WTC twelve years ago on the same day) 

an older gentleman (a fireman) dressed in full kilt 

walked up to the peak of the hill, and started playing a 

tribute to the victims of 9/11 on his bagpipes.  When

he played 'Amazing Grace', there wasn't a dry

eye to be found...it was profound.

We will never forget.

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Claire Beadon Carnell

Member of:

Oil Painters of America

Daily Painters of Pennsylvania

Susquehanna Valley Plein Air Painters