Drawing for new painting

Back again! Here is my drawing for the next painting I'll do. Actually, a lot of it is already done. It's odd to say, but I have sold enough paintings, and have my others spread out in different galleries and stores, I'm running a little short on art, so I'm trying to catch up. Tomorrow, I'm going to hang some paintings in the deli area of Barns and Noble in Hamburg (or as I like to call Hamburger place). That will make Broadway Clay in Frankfort, The Maple Tree gallery in Danville and now Barns and Noble. Pretty cool. If anyone goes by these places check out me art. It always looks better in real life. I also have Good Foods Co-op and the Kentucky Theater coming up this Fall. Anyway, back to the drawing, I have my friend modeling again (she did great), and I felt more confident with this drawing than the last one. I think it took a day or so. I thought I'd finish the basket in the painting. Well, everyone take care and have fun.

Fields of Mercer County

Finally, I'm back. I've been working on this painting for a while now, but I didn't have a camera to take a pic of it with. But now I have one and a new painting to show! I'm calling this one Fields of Mercer County. I decided to get out of the woods a bit and try adding buildings to my work. Buildings have always been very hard for me, so I wanted to start doing them, but in the right setting. I still have to have the Nature element and also I like keeping the Female element too. When I took Art History in College, I remember seeing women in the farm fields in the Northern European paintings and I liked them. Here is my stab of doing something similar, but with a Kentucky spin. Behind the young woman is Shaker Town at Pleasant Hill. Me and my wife visit there often and used to live fairly close to there. I like it! So I got a friend of mine to model for me there and here is one of the results. She was a real sport. Very pretty and joy to work with. It's a big painting, 2 x 4 feet in size. Oh, and I have to say for anyone who wants to bring up the topic, I was not trying to make her a Shaker. I was thinking of a Late 1700-early1900's farm girl theme. An Idealized version. I doubt many girls went farming with bracelets and ear rings on. But hey, it's a painting and I get to create what's going on. I hope everyone enjoys it! Take care and have fun!