Pages

Friday, May 22, 2009

The shade garden- SOLD


Oil on canvas, 8" x 10"
One of the things I really like about painting outside is the way birds and other wildlife eventually decide to ignore you and just go about their business. In my backyard where I painted this, the sparrows are the exception. They were VERY unhappy that I was there, and very vocal about it. Of course, the fact that they had a nest with hungry chicks about 10 feet away from my easel just might have been the reason. TOO BAD SPARROWS! It's my yard- although I did take breaks every 20 minutes or so to go in the house and let them tend the young'uns.

5 comments:

  1. Fantastic visual interest. Great variety of cools and warms, lights and darks, sizes, shapes, smooth and sharp; nice decisions about the composition too. But most of all the end product is a successful sum of it's parts - no easy task. Bravo!

    ReplyDelete
  2. YES! This is a wonderful little painting, great variety in the greens. Presents a very serene and believable scene. Love the little purple flowers.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Nice painting. All the different colors and textures. Very relaxing.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Great Paintings!!!
    http://delponteart.blogspot.com

    ReplyDelete
  5. Thank you all! Including the last, although I have no idea what it says or even what language it is. Can anyone translate?

    ReplyDelete