I must be anticipating winter with these snowy landscapes I've been painting! This scene conveys the feeling of a real cold afternoon in the middle of January. 16x20" Original Watercolor
Much of the farming life is prepairing for a blanket of snow in the winter months that covers the fields where animals eat. The much needed hay is stored in the barns where it is usually nice and warm even though the snow blows outside. 
Finally I've been able to capture what I want in an intense sunset and do it justice. Many an evening in the late summer or early fall there is a moment of time when the setting sun sets the horizen on fire.
In the top photo you can see the pencil outline of the farm buildings and trees before I painted the first layer. The second photo is a little dull but shows the underpainting before I finished putting the second and third washes on. I'm hoping the edges of the barn, house, and trees will have an orange glow to them as they reflect the setting sun.
The gable of the barn seems so far up when your standing on the ground and by the end of the summer they used to be packed to the top with square bales of hay.
I'm trying to work out the bugs in this little painting and have it ready to post in a day or two. The barn itself is coming along fine, it's the sky that I'm worried about. I've gotten so far behind in just about everything that posting my progress seems to take the back seat.