Sheep Hill

Al Gury, in his book on painting Alla Prima, writes, if I remember correctly, that 50% of outdoor work will be successes, and 50% will not be. It may take a while to determine which works fall into which category, and there might be gradations.

White Barn and Silo

This barn and silo are located not far from the wavy barn. And it's not red. I hope to do more with this one.

I just finished a book called Alla Prima by Al Gury on "traditional direct painting." He illustrates two artists of interest to me: Jon Redmond, and Tom Thomson. Thomson was a Candadian artist, who died young (1917). Self-taught, he spent only five years painting wilderness landscapes in Ontario basically out of a cigar box and a canoe. All his paintings are small, and they number in the hundreds, and, judging from the reproductions I have seen, they are fabulous. You can google both these artists to see their work. I will have more to say about Thomson in the future.