Rt 29 South: A former Home
The dilapidated homes just off the roadside are fascinating, they are gathering dust and imploding as we paint them. I am stunned home much they lend themselves to my eye for being interpreted into color on a canvas. Its often the case that they aren't going to last much longer. So I photograph them while I can and then transfer them into paint in both line and color. I use color to define the object, in this case a house that once was a home to earlier Virginians. Its a matter of history that I be as disciplined as I can in painting them in order for them to be remembered accurately. I am not the best at it, I'm certainly no NC Wyeth. I"m not so great that I can't be told "that's not right!" because maybe its not but I am working on getting it down as it looks to me. Painting is an interpretive process. My hope is that what I do works for the viewers that take a look.