I haven't mentioned the farmhouse series in awhile. Actually, I haven't mentioned anything in awhile. Sorry about that. Now that the days are shorter and I am being driven indoors earlier I suspect I will pick up the pace a bit with my blogging. But, back to the farmhouse.....I have been continuing this mini series, fitting them in when time is short or when there has been a particularly lovely day to record. The painting above was an August painting and was a morning rather than afternoon painting which is what most of the series depicts. I decided in the beginning that the only common denominator was to be the view and the size. I didn't commit to a specific time of day. The reason most of them are afternoon paintings is that I found the skies more interesting during that time of day. This summer enormous clouds would come rolling in around 11:00 AM and the show would continue throughout the day. Towards the end of August we had some beautiful soft mornings and although the clouds were missing I wanted to record the colors in the sky.
The painting below was painted in September and just as I wanted to have at least one morning painting I wanted to have a nocturne. What could be better than a full moon in September. Well, maybe a full moon in October. I did do another one that I will phtograph tomorrow (thought I had already done so) and it shows the farmhouse from a different angle. I did it for one of the small works shows I will be participating in and will not include it in the mini series. I would like to explore the nocturne further and attempt some larger paintings. I have always loved them and the mystery they suggest.
I am being lax about updating my website so you might want to check that in a week or so as I upload more new work. I am getting back to my cityscapes and would like to do some more "in progress" posts as I get back to larger work in the studio.
THANK YOU to my regular readers who have hung in there through my silence! You know who you are:-)
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