The Barn on the Holland Farm
This building had been painted earlier, just not from this angle. I took a top downward look in this composition in oil. I liked the perspective of the fence running downhill and swooping around into the back of the barn. I was thinking that I had made an error in judgement when I painted the one side of the barn in shadow, but after working moreso I saw that it seemed to work since the shade is marked with details of the wooden doors, and other details worked out in blues and dark browns. As they say, getting some distance by letting it sit for a while without me looking at it allowed me to really see that what I had done was ok in fact it worked pretty well. I feel that this canvas is successful, but its one that a person needs to take a good look at what one is seeing before deciding if it works as a work of art or not. You don't want to just gloss over it with a quick look, one needs to drink this one in in order to really get what I have done here.