This bucolic scene was photographed on my recent trip to Minnesota. The farms there are so beautiful and many look like a painting waiting to happen. I wanted to do an abstracted foreground - 2/3 of the painting, actually - using a palette knife with lots of paint. The texture you get with a knife cannot be obtained in any other way. I also wanted a painting with lots of different shades of green. I think the painting is successful in those objectives.
For a discussion on impasto technique, please see this Empty Easel article, http://emptyeasel.com/2007/07/26/what-is-impasto-thick-textured-paint
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Hello, we picked this excellent painting as our food-realted painting of the week over on Apartment Therapy: Kitchen. I hope you don't mind .... we love it! kitchen.apartmenttherapy.com
Chris
Thank you, Chris. I guess you could really stretch and call this a (potential) food painting because of the farm, but I would call this a landscape. :-)
We talk so much about farms and farmer's markets on The Kitchen. I'd wanted to include a farm painting for a while and this one really struck me.
I fixed the link on our site ... sorry about that. Thanks for letting us use this picture.
Chris
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