Work in Progress for "Doing Chores"

There will be a farmer added to this scene who is heading to the barn to start chores before dark. On the farm there was always morning and evening chores and if you had dairy cows that meant milking too.

12-26-07 "Midwest Sunset II"

This is a full size painting of a small one I completed this past summer. I added a windmill to give a vertical against all the strong horizontal movement in this composition.

12-22-07 "Snow Tracks"

If you were not impressed with the previous blog hopefully this photo proves to you the painting is not a disaster. The idea is that there is a well worn drive out to the barn as the farmer goes back and forth from the house to the barn. I'm becoming more familiar with acrylics and using them in every painting (this one is about three-quarters acrylic).

Work in Progress for Snow Tracks

Seen here is the work in progress after an hour and a half, maybe one-third finished. This might be called the underpainting because all the detail and finish work is yet to be completed. It is December after all and that has put me in the mood for snow scenes.

12-14-07 "Snowfall on the Davis Farm"

This painting has the glow of twilight and snowfall that I was hoping to capture. Many a winter evening I saw scenes just like this one. Sometimes everything comes together (usually right after I'm ready to throw the whole thing in the trash) and the finished work surprises me. This is one one those moments. 16x20" Original Watercolor

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Snowfall Study

Over the years I have sold 20 or 25 snowfall scenes. At one particular show I sold every one I brought but I haven't painted one in many years now. Just kind of got out of the grove and wanted to move on. This painting needs the details added in the barnboards, doors and windows painted in, and the snowflakes falling. I'll post the finished painting in a couple of days.

12-7-07 "Weathered Barns in Ohio"

Years ago this barn had a nice white wash but over the years it has become weathered and suffered from the elements. The painting has an acrylic sky and guache barns and foreground.

16x20" Original Watercolor

$225, free shipping

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Study for Weathered Barns

Usually my barns are red but this was begged to be painted white and weathered by time. This scene is also from Ohio.

12-1-07 "Clint's Barn Revisited"

The barn has remained essentially the same without the corrections I talked about in the previous blog. This is a full size painting of the miniature that I finished this past summer but that's the purpose of the small ones. Each one was the prep work for a bigger painting that I plan on doing some time in the future.

This painting in not for sale.