Landscape of Virginia

This out of the city experience is very bucolic as one might expect, however every once in a while something stands out as a wonderful composition. This painting is but a small ten inch by twenty inch study for a larger work to come, it is of a Post Office on the local railroad track crossing. The road that crosses the track runs along the Rockfish River for many a mile and the track crosses the river at this point over a bridge which is under the track and out of sight of the viewer of my point of sight. I plan to make the bridge a bit more apparent on the larger painting. I suppose I will get to painting it again sometime when the winds aren't blowing so stiff.

Sometimes I retouch older paintings and take them a little further down the road of creation to another point of existence, and such was the case with this painting. It laid around the house collecting dust until I felt that I could work on it moreso than what I had done. By bringing this painting out I think I put new ideas to work on it. By the time I finished with it I felt that it was completed now. I didn't feel that way before then. This painting is an acrylic. For me that is an area I don't have much experience in and I wish to play with it until I do. I have bought some new acrylic stuff like mediums and some paints before working on this canvas, as of this ending shown here I think I am learning some good lessons by working with more supplies. I'm hoping to show it in the winter group show coming up next month and the month of December. I enjoy looking at it, its a very warm painting, and very lively too. I like that about it.