Road Through The Countryside
on Nov 18 by alinquist55
Realistic landscape painting of a road through a countryside - ©Fine Art Gallery of Realism
Road Through The Countryside – canvas size: 18″ x 36″
In this landscape painting, a country road appears on the far left and passes into the distance in the middle of the painting. On the right is a cornfield, which dominates the painting’s foreground. To the left, two houses stand, one is very light and the other is very dark. Behind them, the countryside rolls into the distance. At the front of the road stands a highway sign.
As a summer neared its end, a friend of mine suggested that I take a drive in the countryside north of town. She and her family lived out there and she said it was a lovely drive to work. The place I spotted happened to be next to where a bus company kept its property so I had a nice place to park when I painted the beautiful landscape.
It took me three late summers to complete this painting as I had a narrow window of time to paint it. I had to set up in a roadside ditch and work quickly. The summer trees in the right distance took longer than I figured they would. By late summer, the haze was effectively blocking a lot of sunlight so I was not getting days as bright as I would have had had I started in June. Still, the trees were near enough that there was no sfumato (artistic haze).
Most of that first year was spent on that stretch of background. The second year was spent on the farmfield. Originally, the foreground was a soybean field and I painted the distant field, the artistic landscape to the left of the houses and the ditch plants along the far left road. The third summer, I did the foreground. I had almost given up on the painting as the crops had changed but the foreground plants were not defined enough for me to worry about whether they were soy or corn. I was more intent on capturing the color, light and shadow of a farm field rather than define crops. But I was able to capture the tassels as their color turned orange.
I really like the houses. I was fascinated by the way the white house looked so blue in the late afternoon sunshine. I later found out that the house is a light blue, not white, so that explained it’s blueness. One day, the owner came over and talked with me. He had a vast collection of models that earned him a little fame. The brown building to the house’s right and slightly behind it is a bar. It was quaint and unobtrusive but has now been painted red and the new owner advertises all over the area.
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