Red Barn, Red Cedars in a New River Pasture
acrylic on canvas
36X18 inches
$500
I have been doing paintings of some barns lately. This one is at a point I am ready to call it done. When I visited Ashe County, N.C. this summer, I was affected in many ways by the beauty of the two forks of the New River flowing through farm and wood lands. It was uplifting, calming, fulfilling, inspiring, comforting, to look and listen to the river. The art scene in Ashe County is really accelerating and one of the community projects is to put quilting patterns onto barns and outbuildings around the county. Though this barn has no tiny quilt pattern on the front, it is inspired by those barns. Not too long ago a fellow blogger photographed a red barn which prompted me to paint fields with red barns for a while. Thanks to the blogger friend. It has been a rewarding art pursuit for me. I enjoy my paintings. I hope someone else will too.
There’s something that keeps drawing me into that painting! I really like it!
Wow. That is encouraging coming from you. I think you have a discerning eye. I have been experimenting with color composition and simplifying, symplifying, symplifying. One guy called it my “coloring book” stage. Occasionally I get away from it but I come back. It is interesting to me but not always to others. So it is always encouraging to have someone say he likes it.
Wow, it’s really fun to rediscover your blog every time I scroll down. I can’t believe I never commented this piece, I do love it with its red and pink hills.
…and fuzzy texturing.
…it looks downright huggable!