John Holland House
The grounds keepers house on John Hollands farmland is one most interesting home. It seemed to me to a home, one that seemed to be the earliest structure made on this property. Granted its one that is small but it seemed to have that feel of a starting spot for whomever began living on that land. Its a small structure and one where a man and wife might fit in with a small place to live and cook what with it having two chimneys and footprint big enough to fit two people in for just living and building additional buildings on later. The painting came slowly. Its one in which I worked the paint well after the application of oils and laid down the ground colors in the beginning to get the image drawn and set up the correct proportions and perspective of the brush drawing image. The dark colors added when drawing in the image in with the loaded brush. At this point in my painting I can draw with the brush whereas earlier I used a very thin medium of turpentine and lins