In early June I spent a week in Door County walking in the parks, visiting art galleries, and painting. This is my painting of the cottage that I stayed in, named The Studio, because it was formerly an artist’s studio. It’s the first painting I have finished that I started plein air. I’m finding that it’s not the composition, as I had supposed, so much as the colors that are the challenge of painting from life.
By the way, did you notice how the cottage leans slightly to the left? So do I: I hold my head tilted to the left. That means my eyes are tilted slightly down to the left and, consequently, so are most of my painting. You just can’t help put a piece of yourself on the canvas. Now that you know you will start to see it all over my work.
While I was in Door County I visited a goat farm and dairy where I took almost 200 photos of baby goats only to find my camera card clean as whistle when I got home. I know I had them on there; I checked more than once. Clearly some gremlin got ahold of my camera and wiped the card clean. Ah, well. No goat paintings this year but I’ve got another chicken and one of a barn in the early morning light. You can see them both on the Oil Painting tab.