An Unstudy

This small 8x10 painting is not a study, but more like an "unstudy" in which I'm trying to unlearn something, though I'm not sure what that is yet.  I started the painting this weekend.  I set up my easel besides that of Thor Wickstrom, who was working on a nice painting.  What I saw was the messy entrance to a parking lot on Route 8 in North Adams, MA, outside the studio building.  Maybe I was trying to see something else.

Farm Shed

This small farm shed is close to the edge of Luce Road in Williamstown, MA. I have drawn and painted it many times. As you can see, it's in a splendid place. Tonight it's probably deep in snow.

"To see is to enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own experience, and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience. All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice objects you notice. (e.g. Read that sentence again.) Or put another way: make objects that talk--and then listen to them." From Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland.

I wonder why I like that farm shed so much.