This is a beautiful, colorful time of year. Yesterday I went out to paint, but first spent some time just wandering, and enjoying all the wildflowers - asters, goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, black-eyed susans, and a few late-blooming bird's-foot-trefoil and clover blossoms. And watching the butterflies.
Then time to paint.
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| Sketched in... |
The trees are only beginning to hint at the colors they will turn, but the sumac and grape leaves are showing bright hues of reds, oranges, and yellow-greens.
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| Color time! |
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| Completed. |
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| Roadside Glory, 9 x 12-inch plein air oil on linen/hardboard |
Today's painting:
The sky threatened rain, but it stayed to the west and we only got clouds and a little wind.
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| Very rough sketch- doesn't look like much at this stage! |
The cows were busy munching, and working their way from one end of the pasture to the other and back again. I did a very quick sketch of their shapes before they moved on. By the time I was ready to work on them again, they were back to nearly the same spot.
Blocking in the greens and beginning to really notice all the subtleties of the field grass.
More color and texture in the grasses and trees:
Finished up with the blue-gray clouds, and black and white cows.
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| Grazing the East Pasture, 11 x 14-inch plein air oil on linen/hardboard. |
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