plein air oil 12" x 9"
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$295.00 + $10. s/h
This alley is the 5th painting from the South Park Plein Air Arts Celebration in Fairplay, CO earlier this month. I had also spotted this location when I was scouting on the first evening in town. I loved the shadows in the alley and the bits of light on the rickety, old fence. The wobbly, old out buildings created fun shapes & shadows.
Again, a little bit of artistic license was used. I found the leaves of the trees to the left of the buildings in the back yard a bit distracting. I preferred the simplicity of the mountains as a back ground. It created one more interesting shape instead of a mess of leaves. I often do a pencil sketch before beginning a painting. This helps me plan the composition. It was as I was scribbling in the leaves in the sketch that I knew they would be distracting.
