My art work at the Shelburne Orchards. During the summer of 2007 I began painting a variety of settings at the orchard with water colors. Over time I converted a few of the paintings to oil and posted them side by side ... water to oil. To view the paintings in chronological order, use the "Blog Archive" list on the right hand side.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
63) Buckwheat Field and Elder Lady
Early June, sitting among the “elder” trees near the Gate House looking west. The apple tree in the painting reminded me of J.R. Tolkien’s Ents, or maybe a tree from the Wizard of Oz or a character from an early Walt Disney cartoon. The branches resembled creaky arms suggesting that at any moment the trunk would lift up and march down the hill towards the newly planted buckwheat.
In the background the willows stood out against the dark trees lit up from the westward shifting sun. I tried to capture the warmth of this light on the woods, earth and buckwheat field.
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