Barn #8 - Winter Sun

Winter Sun, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $200

Day 8 of the 30 Day Challenge.  Today's subject is really the snow and the weak winter sun.  Light and shadows but not the way we experience those things in the summer time. This barn is in Sudbury, VT. It sits in the lee of a big hill that is covered in scrub. Judging from the looks, this is probably the oldest of the farm's buildings - there are some newer looking sheds and barns sitting to the left of this old structure.

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Barn #7

Barn #7, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $100

Day 7 of the Thirty Day Challenge. I'm still trying to figure out ways to defeat the detail gremlin - that's the little guy that sits on the end of your paintbrush and insists that you put in every little dit and dot.  Today I started with a good, accurate drawing and then proceeded to deliberately paint outside the lines. I then used lines and a few well-placed (I think) brush strokes to define the places I thought edges needed to be.

This old barn, although freshly painted and in good repair, sits in an overgrown field full of weeds.  I found it alongside a dirt road a few towns over one day last summer.

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Barn #6

Barn #6, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $100

Day six of the 30 Day Challenge.  Today I started with the lines and worked from there. Some of the early lines got painted over as I went along and a few were put back in at the end.  I'm still trying to figure out how much line-work to use and when so this painting was a good exercise. As I go along, I'm finding that lines are hard to integrate well.  I feel like I still have a lot more work to do on that score.

This barn is down the street from where I live.  It's got missing and broken boards on the sides, many of the window panes are missing and the door is permanently ajar. It hasn't seen any paint in quite while. It is still used to store some hay, and it provides shelter for the heifers in the side yard. The milking barn and the main herd are on the other side of the river.

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Barn #5

Barn #5, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $150

Day five of the 30 Day Challenge.  Today I decided to go totally abstract. I started with what I visually understand to be a barn - red-orange paint, weathered boards, a big, gaping door with glimpses of equipment in the dark, gaps and holes and oddly new patches here and there. I used a palette knife to get the roughness and texture, allowing the paint to blend on the board for the most part.

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Barn #4

Barn #4, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $100

Day four of the Thirty Day Challenge. This is my second attempt for today. My first attempt went from drawing to tight realistic painting in no time at all - yikes! So I gessoed over it and set it aside.  I knew I needed to really focus on the abstract part. I chose the tumbledown barn next door to my house because of its simplicity, hoping that would allow me to get put more emphasis on its surroundings which are pretty overgrown and lend themselves to abstraction.  Progress was made.

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Barn #3

 

Barn #3, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $100

Day three of the Thirty Day Challenge.  Although I think this barn is OK, I feel like I lost track of my theme which was to include line-work and abstraction.  Both of those sort of got lost in the reality of the barn.  This barn is located in North Hero; the folks that own it raise and milk goats these day. I'm sure it used to be a cow barn back when milking cows was how you made a living in rural Vermont.

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Up on the Hill

Barn #2 - Up on the Hill, Acrylic on Crescent Board, 10"x10", $250

Day two of the Thirty Day Challenge.  I'm pretty excited about this painting. I feel like the abstract foreground just happened by itself, and the line-work in the foreground is a lot of fun.  Everything just worked. This is definitely the direction I had in mind when I set up my theme parameters.

This barn sits atop a high, grassy hill in Peacham, VT.  It hasn't been used in some years - most of the windows are gone - but like many barns, it was built to last and it will probably still be standing up on that hill after I am gone.

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