Yes!! It's finally finished! I've been working on this painting for so long. Maybe not working, but putting off finishing it because I just wasn't feeling it until recently. I was beginning to think I would just have to resort to starting a different painting all together. This is what happens when I haven't painted something this involved for over a year.
Generally when I start a painting I finish it. I'm not the type to have unfinished projects sitting around. Canvas is also my surface of choice and this was a flat masonite panel. I haven't painted on a flat surface in years. Let me just say that canvas is STILL my preferred choice.
When I first started this painting last year the barn was gray and I finally realized that was the problem. It stuck out like a sore thumb. Gray is all the rage right now, but not for this fall scene. Once I got that corrected the painting started coming to life with a story to tell.
My husband's family had a farm with a dinner bell like this one. His dad moved it to his home and last year when no one was around, someone stole it. It was heartbreaking! I added this to the painting for my hubby.
Follow the winding country road through the Village of Redfield and you’ll eventually end up passing by the Parker Farm. Guests are guided by the aroma of a home-style Thanksgiving dinner around the bend to the driveway of Ed and Nancy’s home where dinner is laid out picnic style and the family will be eating by moonlight. There’s always plenty of food for extras who might stop by to visit. The scent of chimney smoke and freshly fallen leaves lingers in the air as Lady, the family dog, checks out the new litter of kittens roaming the farm.
This painting is listed in my Etsy Shop and does not include a frame.
Kudos to you for finishing this painting, Catherine! It is WONDERFUL and so detailed. You do such beautiful work. I love that you figured out the gray was stalling you. I find I'm the same way sometimes... there will be something sniggling in the back of my mind that just doesn't sit right. Once I address it, I'm usually off and running again. GREAT job! blessings and hugs ~ tanna
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Tanna! I so this painting on Etsy already this morning. I think that's my fastest sale ever! Blessings and hugs back at you!
DeleteCongratulations on selling your painting so quickly! It is lovely! I do love your work so much. Folk Art is my favorite. Although I don't paint in that genre, I keep trying from time to time.
ReplyDeleteHi my sweet friend :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you're posting and painting again! The world would be a much sadder place without your artwork in it.
I love this painting, but then again I love all of them lol
love to you,
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