A Barn on Rt 6 (another look)

So I reworked that last subject which was that old country barn off of Rt. 6 and I got a completely different painting out of it. I took a head on view of it and worked with the perspective of the receding post holding up the right side of it. That gave me time to work on the sunlight upon the post holding the roof up. I began doing those posts with a simple brown and bear canvas cartoon. When I returned to that area I decided to make a color change to include a deep dark red mixed with some burnt umber which contrasted well with my Hansa Yellow w Flake White and light ocher sunlight side of those posts. It made for a welcoming effect but there was one troublesome moment of reality. That was how the right side of the painting was so warm with all that effect from the yellow and reds that the left side was very cold. It was something that I saw as a feature the viewer would have to forgive, I had the thought that it might be forgiven as simply the change of the barn wood in a passing cloud going overhead. It gives a change so that the eye looks from one side to the other and there is a difference in color temperature of that barn. I've decided to leave it alone. Its just the novelity of that painting, and its not that bad of an affect. It definitely a change from that other smaller version of the Barn on Rt 6 in Lousia Co. Variety is the spice of life they use to say, now let see if that saying can really stand up to the test of being seen in these two paintings of Barns of Central Virginia.

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What Has Worked;

Walking Along W. Main St.

Wyant's Store in Whitehall,Va.

Firecycle in Kamahura: 1954 or So

The County of Nelson's Courthouse

The Holland Farm Chicken House in Arrington Va.