Rice Field at Dawn
6X8, Oil on Panel
SOLD
A couple of weeks ago, I took a two day paint/camp trip to the southeast corner of the state. It was an effort to close out a large chunk of my project in a short period of time. My overall goal was to get very solid starts on paintings in 6 out of the 8 counties in that region for which I had no photo reference material and to get photo reference material for the remaining two. I fell just short of that goal in that I got solid starts/completions for only 5 of the 6 but I did get photo reference for everything. Now, my goal is to fully close out that southeast corner of the state by year's end. It's going to be hard but I do have a solid start and it is feasible.
This was the second painting from my second day. The first day, I made the mistake of doing two street scenes (which I said I wasn't going to do but I have a hard time not painting those!) and also doing them at 8X10. The first painting of that first day I started at 9:30 and finally stopped working on it over 2 hours later. Not the way to make great time but it turned out to be a good painting.
I'm starting my documentation of this trip with this painting because it was the most complete of all of them. All I did in the studio was add a few indications of tree trunks in the far trees and sign it.
I have a lot more things from Desha County I want to paint, including enlarging this one to a 30X40!
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