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| Lilacs in an old farmyard, oil on canvas, 14X11, by little old me. |
Yesterday I spent four hours painting standing up. I was able to finish—if not brilliantly, at least successfully. I think I’m on target for recovery before I leave for Maine in mid-July.
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| Here’s the barn. Ain’t she a beauty? |
This barnyard—at G and S Orchards in Walworth, Ontario County—spoke to me the first time I saw it. Niagara County was dairy and apple-growing country when I was a kid, and I really enjoy being up close to a farm again.
But I’m grateful I’m not running it. Gary told me he was up at 3:30 AM, and he would be working until 9:30 PM.
I’ve again laid out the steps of this painting for my beginning painting students:
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| A careful drawing, to start. This one, again, is in watercolor pencil. |
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| A map of darks using a thin wash of ultramarine-and-burnt-sienna. |
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| A color-map of thin paint. From here you can go forward to paint the details. |
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