Hill Farm, Early Spring

Another "rural cathedral" that's weathered a century of seasons and hard work.

Available from Gallery North Star.

Click here to see earlier stages of "Hill Farm, Early Spring".

Hill Farm, Early Spring (detail, in progress)

Here's another painting keyed around a strong local color (the green truck) that has required some advance thinking about compositional unity and variety--though it always finally gets down to just putting the paint on the canvas and seeing what happens.

Hill Farm, Early Spring (in progess)

I've been mostly out of the studio this last week celebrating my son Colin's graduation from college and getting the garden in (an activity taken very seriously here in Vermont), but am back now working on this under painting of a composition all about shapes, shadows and seasons.