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Abstraction

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I was just kick'n around with my brush and easel with canvas loaded aboard and I just started painting whatever came into my capricious small mind. This is a take upon an infinity loop taken to a design level with the support of a similar background design. Don't get too caught up in the color, everyone says to me "your paintings are so colorful" so I kind of know my palette is kind of "high key" but I like having something on my wall that is pleasing to look at, this wasn't always the case with me. There was the time in my youth when I wanted to lecture my audience about the horrors of being overweight and exceedingly fat. But I've put that doctrine away, and I see where the artistic medium isn't really the most effective or desirable place to being stating that idea, so I stopped doing so long ago. I do now see art as a way of not only remembering "what is their" but also rendering in a likeable lovable way so that it pleases

Landscape of a Rockfish River Rd Farm

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Art can be redux and made anew. These are new paintings that came about from older work. I simply picked up my work on them right where I left off. One is simply a landscape I began at the beginning of this past summer, then I let it sit on my wall until it bothered me enough to pull it down and take another look at the thing. It simply screamed out for a new approach and for me to take it their, now!! Now after having worked on it for a good while I feel like its at a stopping point and I can move on to other canvases. The painting is of an open field on Rockfish River Road down near the James River in Nelson County where I now live. This scene is of a farm on land just off the highway, the land is vast and the scene was very open as well leaving plenty of room for a nice open skyline to put rendered. I enjoyed working on it. It was a warm but not yet hot summers day. I began around noon on location and finished up about two and a half hours later on. Then put