Thursday, May 17, 2012

Dawn of a New Summer, Oil on Linen, 18x24 (SOLD)
revised 8/25/12
This is a studio painting roughly based on a plein air painting I did in March called Dawn of a New Spring. For me, a painting is successful if you get the sense of the temperature and humidity of the day. The Spring painting was done on location while we were still in a drought. There was no snow and the grasses showed no sign of life. The clouds burned off minutes after sunrise and everything faded to beige. I wanted the studio painting to feel much warmer and wetter than the earlier painting. To me, it looks like it's either going to rain, get really hot, or both.
Dawn of a New Spring, Oil on Linen, 12x16
March, 2012

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