Hay Bales I
8" x 10" oil on gallery-wrapped canvas
- ready to hang or can be framed
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(This blog was posted yesterday - Wednesday, Aug. 22 - but for some reason it did not go out to my subscribers. I really like this painting - don't want you to miss it! So - I'm re-publishing this entry. Please excuse me if you get it twice. Computers???)
This is my first real plein air painting of a Kansas landscape! Yesterday at the McCall farm, we loaded our easels and paints onto a flat-bed trailer and headed to the fields. They had just cut the hay, and we looked out over fields to view the big rolled bales. Interesting - it was in the 90's but we found some shade and had a good breeze and we didn't notice the heat at all. It helped that we started painting about 6 pm. I've done plein air florals at the farm, but I decided it's time to do some local landscape scenes. Fun! I can't wait to see these trees in their fall colors. Maybe I'll do this scene again in a different season.
I'm not sure what took longer - painting the landscape or photographing it. Oil paintings are hard to photograph until they're dry because they have too much reflection from the shiny paint. I tried a bunch of lighting situations and finally gave up. I'll take another photo in a few days and replace this one. Just one of many challenges - persistence helps!
I hope you're having a beautiful day!
Love the colors!
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