Sunday, January 23, 2011

Blanket of Snow (oil on canvas, 2011)

(Private Collection)
I painted this view of the old Schools barn, across the field behind my studio, last Saturday, January 15th, which I just realized was the five year anniversary of the day that we moved into our house here in northern Maine. Coincidentally, the first art that I did after moving in was a pastel drawing of the same subject. I can see this barn out of the window over my kitchen sink (where I probably spend more time, washing dishes, than I'd care to...) and it amazes how different it looks every time I see it. At different times of the day and during different seasons of the year and depending on the ever-changing northern Maine weather, the sky and field take on a multitude of different color combinations. I had some paintings in the house yesterday, preparing them for an upcoming show, and my daughter asked me what I'm going to do when I run out of things to paint. I pointed out that many of my paintings are based on the same subjects and that I could quite easily spend my whole life painting any one of them.

3 comments:

Justjanesinsaneblog@blogspot.com said...

You can see beauty,everywhere. Sometimes when I look out at the snow covered fields, I see a desert.

martinealison said...

La neige c'est beau, froid et aussi difficile à peindre et vous avez réussi à donner une âme à celle-ci à travers votre toile.
Bisous

Kay said...

beautiful..lucky you with such a nice view.