This is 9-11 day and no matter what you think or feel about it, the world changed and if you were aware on that day you remember where you were and what you were doing. For me I was working on a ladder on the side of a barn, in Washington County, NY. The sky clear and the air crisp, much like today, 15 years later.
Last Sunday I drove home from the cabin on 6th Lake, after the painting festival in Old Forge, NY. I needed something familiar and green. There is a lot of that around here, I went to this spot:
I've painted here before, just not too recently, it's a lot of green, and not much that is man-made, except or the mowed fields and an overgrown fence line.
#847 Duel Hollow Rd. 9-4-16 9x12
The day light has been waning, just a few precious minutes each day, and it makes for a rush of elongated light as the sun sets, and then it's gone.
This was Monday, Labor Day. and another familiar scene just down the street. The end of the day light made for some great shadows, but I failed on the drawing of the church, and a few other details lost in the process, seeing the image in front of the scene really points this out. Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe I'll try again and get it better next time.
#848 Park Place 9-5-16 14x16
This place, an intersection is one I've been through many times, and connects some fabulously picturesque scenery, but I liked the shadows and the trees.
I've been working on the patterns of light holes, shadows, and the patterns of light and darks in the foliage. There is a lot to those patterns and they can be vexing, getting them to feel right has come about after a lot of error, and we are still often vexed by them.
#849 Spraguetown Rd. & CR 52, Greenwich. 9-7-16 12x16
It seems like I'm getting out to paint in the 2nd hour before sunset, this means I have some time before the light really starts to change, by the 1st hour before the sunset the changes in light turn most rapidly, and all hell breaks loose.
The scene had a lot of glowing green and yellow, they were all so close, it was difficult to differentiate one from another, by the time I stopped the light was gone and I feared the painting was pretty dull and lifeless. Much of this is because when you're out in the world the painting just can't do light the way nature does it. When I brouht it back and saw it in artificial light, it looked ok.
#850 CR 59 & Schweininger Rd. 9-9-16 11x14
Just down the street last night, a place I go by often many times a day.
#851 W. Main St. 9-10-16 12x16
This was tonight on Raefield Farm Rd. I was excited about the corn field being harvested, but in the end you couldn't tell in the painting, but the light and shadows carried the day.
#852 Raefield Farm Rd. 9-11-16 11x14
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