This farm was quite close to where we used to live so I often went there to paint. Over the years, I must have done a lot of paintings of the buildings, the silos and the landscape all around the farm. This one was completed from a study done when sitting in my car one cold winter morning. Here, after snow had fallen, the slightly warmer temperatures aided by the sun has caused it to begin to melt allowing winter grasses to show through. The scene is back-lit which often brings about an interesting composition challenge. It was worth the struggle I went through to complete it though as I learned a lot during that time. I painted this one so long ago that I can't quite remember the size, I think it was done in oil on an 18 x 24 inch canvas (46 x 61 cm). The slide that this picture was scanned from is the only pictorial record I have of it and is not of a great quality but it will have to do.
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