A Prairie Fall fine art to buy
on May 25 by admin
A PRAIRIE FALL landscape painting for sale by the fine art gallery of realism, canvas size: 18” x 36”
A PRAIRIE FALL, canvas size: 18” x 36”
In this landscape, a row of trees cans be seen along the horizon. They are changing from green to yellow. Above them, a large bank of fluffy fall clouds can be seen. The ground in front of the trees is covered with a variety of bushes and grasses turning a variety of colors in the fall. The sumac is bright orange and red, others have turned an dark amethyst. A line of grass stems and barren bushes cut at an angle near the front of the picture. At the lower right, another clump of low-lying greenery is turning yellow.
Sometimes my ideas get a little worn so I have plans I return to when I get into a creative jam. One of them was to paint in the various parks around town. There are problems with the idea. Many of the city parks are simply landscaped playgrounds, making them difficult to find an interesting view. Although I have painted a few of those parks, there are only so many ways you can paint a swing or a wading pool. Even the larger parks can be devoid of interesting views, being more of an arboretum than a vista. In this case, I chose a park that was used for educational purposes.
I spent a few sunny fall weekends at the park, standing off fro ma trail in tall weeds. One of the days was fairly windy although it didn’t cause much trouble. On the first of those weekend mornings, I painted the row of trees that create the horizon. The wind tossed the trees and the clouds around and the upper part of the painting ended up looking a little wind tossed. A few weekends later, I started on the midground but it would be a year later before I’d finish off the foreground.
This is probably one of my loosest paintings. Up close, much of it looks more like brush strokes than objects. That is what I wanted to achieve. Some of that style comes from an impatience I get from the narrow window of time I have to paint in a season. But I also like the impulsive, impatient look that comes from quick brush strokes, not the clever techniques that are found in people who like to display gimmickry in their technique, but, rather, the impressionistic spreading of paint and color and using it to sculpt reality in a loose way.
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