Heartland, 9052, 8x20 oil on panel

Karin Jurick is up to her tricks again on unsuspecting artists in her Different Strokes for Different Strokes blog challenge. This time we were to post our interpretation of this bucolic scene of the Pennsylvania countryside.
The trick is that the reference photo she posted for us was black and white. We had to come up with the colors ourselves. It's harder than you would think. As you can see, I cropped the image so that the center of interest (the farm) wasn't smack dab in the middle. I chose an 8x20 format to accentuate the panorama look.
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Iowa Farm, view 4, 07608 private commission

This is the fourth autumn view of this Iowa farm. This farm is the family homestead and the paintings of scenes around the farm will be a Christmas present for Mom and Dad. The fields have corn as far as the eye can see. I love doing paintings of America's heartland. Those of us living in cities rarely give a thought as to the origins of our corn chips and ethanol. SOLD

Iowa Farm, view 1, 07308, private commission

Another view of 4 part private commission of an Iowa farm.
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Iowa Farm, view 3, 07508, private commission

Another view of the 4 part Iowa farm commission.
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Iowa Farm, view 2, 07408, private commission

I'm working on four views of an Iowa farm in autumn. The photos sent to me were taken in the summer, so I had to create the colors of fall.
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A New Day, 16x20 original impasto oil painting of a farm

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

Life is Good, 16x20 original oil painting of hereford cows

I was going to call this painting "Mrs. Brown, You Have a Lovely Daughter." My husband nixed that idea because the song (sung by Herman's Hermits) is 40 years old, and most people won't know about it or remember it unless they listen to "oldies" radio.

Let me know if you like (and are old enough to remember) the Mrs. Brown title. For purchase information, please see my website, www.carolnelsonfineart.com