Road, Autumn

To see the stages to this finished painting click here.

Road, Autumn (in process)

I've decided that this series on Vermont landscape elements needs to be about emotion rather than content: rather than try to catalogue features of the variety of roads we have here, my paintings should aim at conveying the feeling of being in this landscape at a particular place and time (here, a late October afternoon in the Champlain Islands).

Road, Autumn (first stage)

The steps to a completed painting are records of both process and time, of addition, disappearance, confidence overtaken by questions, and, finally, a need for some kind of a completion (that's is always a bit of a compromise).

Study: Autumn Road

The Champlain Islands are the flat part of Vermont, where you often see the lake rather than a mountain as a small blue shape in the background.