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Here are two stages of this painting. I like to work from the top down, meaning I start at the sky and end up at the foreground at the bottom of the painting. Little details like windows and background trees start to be filled in at this time also. The next blog will be the finished painting.
It's a little unusual to put the main focal point in the center of the painting but with the strong red barn off to the right of the house it works this time. The sky is acrylic and gouche and the house is all acrylic paint. I'm finding the acrylic is getting easier to work with as I use it more and more.
Here's one farm job nobody likes doing. Throwing the cow manure into the spreader and spreading it onto the fields!
The composition of this painting has given me trouble from the start and that is a big clue I should have scrapped it when I had the chance. Now it has a mind of it's own and won't settle for the waste can. It should be done in a day or so. I've not posted as I should because of a back log in house repairs that couldn't be put off any longer. I've been trying to get accepted into an artist websight but the fact that I don't post several times a week is a handicap. They want artist that are very regular and produce weekly if not more to keep their 1.5 million viewers happy (and buying).
This is a scene right after the wheat harvest. The golden stubble left by the combines fills the field in front of the barn and the straw left behind will be made into bales to be put in the mow of the barn. They will be used all winter as bedding for the barn animals.
I'm trying to keep a strong foreground in this painting so that the barns and house stay in the background but that isn't always easy to do. We'll see how it turns out.