Love the paintings from your trip. I love especially the serendipity of experimenting one period of time to the completion after absorbing an environment in the present. Just beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Hope that cough vamooses in the next day or two. Take care.
As a young man growing up in city life, I use to take Sunday drives out into the country. As an old man I think, I should go for a drive today! Well, it's mostly all gone except a few old barns. All the beautiful little outbuildings, gone, the old fence posts completely rotted away, the cow pastures now thickets, vines and scruffy little trees trying to survive. Mostly ugly barren fields with a planted crop field here and there. I miss the old graphics on the billboards, now just skeletons along the state roads. They can't take away the old smells though. I can still smell them like it was yesterday! I like how you put to good use the watercolor studies. It inspires me to paint over some old abandon oils and then scrape back to see what comes of them. I like playing!
Inspiring talk today. I loved seeing how you immersed yourself in a subject, resulting in successful paintings. I can't wrap my head around how cheerful you are while painting such somber scenes, but I think that's because you see beauty in them.
That's a good question... I guess I decided a long time ago that I agree with Abraham Lincoln, that ol' depressive, when he said people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Also, I was lucky that I have a chemical makeup that allows me to see things as extremely sad, but I don't get paralyzed with depression. Lucky.
