Miniature Barn Painting - Bit of the Country

Bit of the Country

This is another of my miniature 4 x 6" paintings done on hardboard.  I vary my normal painting technique from painting on canvas to working on the hardboard surface.  Stretched canvas has just a little give to the surface compared to hardboard and so I find that using my brushes in a different way works better on this surface.  I also need to go down in brush size as my painting surface sizes get smaller.   I wanted the feel of distance in the painting so worked in a series of several colors and ground spaces for this piece.  This painting will easily fit right into a standard frame. 

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Snow out my window today!

Here is a photo that I just took of the view out the window that I paint near. We had a lot of grass showing this morning and you could see the gravel drive. The snow has come down quickly to change the looks of the landscape around here.   It was almost white out conditions earlier, but has let up for right now.  We need the moisture for the soil, so we are lucky to get it.  I have been busy getting a painting ready to send off to the "Animals in Art" Exhibit at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and working on an entry for another juried exhibition.  I have one of my miniature 4 x 6" paintings on the easel that I am in the midst of working on too. 

Recycled Barn Out My Window

Here is the view of the top of my easel, looking out the window that I paint near.  Our old barn is very lucky to still be standing.  It almost went down in a bad spring storm that we had in the area almost 22 years ago now.   It was what they term a "Microburst" instead of a tornado.  Despite what it was named, it did take down several other old barns, on farms within a few miles of us, and left our barn badly leaning, but still standing.  We found a great family business, construction company in the area, that worked on old barns.  They used a system of telephone poles and cables, to pull the barn back into position, and then adding reinforcing at key points, to keep the barn standing straight again. 

This old barn was built in the 1920's and some of the old wooden beams in it were recycled from an earlier barn.  You can see the notches in some of them that obviously don't match up with any others in the barn.  We don't know if the beams came from a previous barn on this old farmstead, or were brought in from somewhere else.    

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Original Red Barn Old Farm Landscape Art Painting

This is a smaller painting than I normally do.  This piece measures 10 x 8" and is done in acrylic paint on an archival quality linen over board canvas.   I love the big blue skies of our midwestern summers and this piece is my impression of such a day in the heartland. 

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