Friday, February 8, 2013

Pinned In


16 x 20
Oil on Linen
Plein Air
SOLD

In the past, old surfing movies from Bruce Brown and Dale Davis provided short-term relief from the Winter blues with no real outlet other than hopping on a plane to Central America. Nowadays, a Richard Schmid dvd such as "November" will do the trick and trying to reenact a film is as simple as packing the easel and getting outside to find something to paint.

Off an old road pinned in behind some old cattle barbed wire fence is this old red barn - a relic in rural Bertie County as contemporary low maintenance metal buildings have become a better economical substitute for repairs and upkeep for picturesque farm yard architecture like this.