8x10
Oil on Linen Board
Plein Air
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After a hot and muggy day, a cold front moved through last night shifting the winds to a comfortable Northwest and providing some really pretty cloud studies today. Behind Carolina Farm Center on Hwy 308 just West of Windsor, Big Bobby Leggett was helping Ed Rawls plant soybeans behind freshly picked wheat. This is done with a no-till drill pulled behind a tractor that has coulter blades that cut into the ground so the planter can lay the seed in the trench and cover it back up. Since the ground doesn't have to be prepped or tilled, picking and planting can be done simultaneously in one field. Little Ed was picking while Big Ed and Big Bobby planted. I had to jump in and add one more task to this operation.
The sun was just right on the red barn and clouds were perfect over the trees for a quick landscape study. The only problem was there were two tractors planting and one combine picking, and to make the painting work I had to be in the field too. I would set up the easel and paint until Big Bobby's tractor got too close, and then I would pick everything up and move forward and set up on the ground that he had already planted. After about an hour and a half of this musical tractor and easel game, the field was finally picked, planted and painted - a modern marvel when contemporary agricultural practices meet contemporary art.
