Carriage Hill Farm - SOLD

Carriage Hill Farm

6x6 Oil on board

This painting is SOLD

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This is a small painting that I tried to do very quickly. I am wanting to work on loosening up. This one is and I really enjoy doing it.  This is a scene at the Carriage Hill Farm in Ohio. It is a very old farm, still a working farm and is open to the public. It is a very nice place to go and see how things were done in days gone by. There is a nice lake and walking trails also.

Sunflowers - For Rose Marie

Sunflowers

6x6 Oil on Gesso Board

For Rose Marie

This is my first real attempt at painting sunflowers. There are a few first for me on the blog. They were quite fun. I think I will do this again. This painting was done from a photo that I took when we were visiting and organic farm here in Ohio. Yes, we try to do organic, as much as we can. I have a nice organic garden going in my back yard and some volunteer sunflowers are coming up where the bird feeder was. Maybe I will paint some of them when they get to blooming really well. 

Before Planting

8x8 inch oil on canvas board 

Available for $20 plus $5 shipping

I did this painting for two reasons ( I think they call it killing two birds with one stone).  One is for the Daily Paintworks weekly challenge. Been wanting to do that for some time and can't seem to get a round tuit. The subject is "The Outside Your Window Challenge". So this is the view outside our windows on the east side of our house. This is a closeup shot, as the field between us is really a lot larger than what is shown here.  This is the corn field in Ohio that I live by. (Excue bad grammer!) Only I think that this summer it will be a soy bean field. You can see this painting at DailyPaintworks.com  under the challenges. Anyone can do this challenge, if you are interested. The second reason for this painting is for an exercise with Nel, who is doing Prompts and Critiques for me this summer, using the Zorn Palette. This palette consists of Ivory Black, Yellow Orchre, Cadmium Red Light, White, and Cobalt Blue. I just learned about this today. It makes for some interesting colors and I think too, a rather harmonious effect, as Nel said. I am not listing a sale price yet. I am still doing some work on this one. Soon though!! Just wanted you to know I AM doing something! You can let me know if you are interested.