New Summer Work
“Along The Way”
9″ x 13″
Unframed
$235
It’s been almost two months to the day since the last post!? Summer is a busy season for me with exhibits, shows and fairs. The unfortunate reality is that actual painting time tends to get squeezed. I have been more productive lately, with a number of works in progress and a few completed.
As is the case for me quite often, this work began as a search through old sketchbooks for ideas and inspirations. In this case, a very old sketchbook contained a color sketch completed in the little town of East Arlington, Vermont in 1994.
East Arlington Vermont – Sept 7, 1994
The sketch is painted as if it was peak foliage, but it couldn’t have been that early in September. Anyone who has looked at other posts on this blog knows my attraction to raking light and sunlit structures. Looking at this one again inspired me create a similar feel but in the summer season.
My first thumbnail sketch was an attempt to keep both the feel and the scene as it was depicted in the original sketch.
After completing the first thumbnail, I decided to try another with the structures moved to the top of the composition and to give up the attempt to keep them as they were in the original sketch (and still are in East Arlington!).
This was the thumbnail that I decided to go with – with a couple changes. In the final painting, farm buildings were switched with each other – the main building ended up to the right and the “el” building to the left. In addition, the both were pushed a bit farther into the distance and another building was added to the left to create more distance in the final work.
