Landscape of Virginia

One of those things that happen as one grows older, old friends that were in the same class as you get in touch with you and one has some sort of kinship simply because we were both their in the same school at the same time in history. Its odd. Due to this phenomenon he asked me to make a painting of the home he grew up in back in Alexandria Va. He sent me the photo and I got to work. It took longer than I expected it to take due to the complexity of color involved. I wanted it to be a simply white house but it was told to me it wasn't white but an off grey and green color. So I put down the green onto the canvas and then I couldn't get away from it from there on in. I played with it and put my hands up in dismay yet I kept going back and worked on it. I had hopes yet in the end I had to say well its a good painting simply for what it is. I learned that its possible to salvage some work and it isn't possible for others. I did what I could but I think it