So what do you do on a snow day after a long, snowy winter? Paint a small oil of Spring Time and what you hope to see. I sketched this scene from along the Interstate in Pennsylvania on a road trip to Indiana. The pencil sketch and a white chalk and charcoal sketch.
So you can see the editing process, The two sketches are closer to what I saw and remembered. The sketches are based on a very rough quick sketch done while the wife drove down the Interstate. The scene passed too fast to capture with a photograph, but I captured the image in my head and transferred it to the sketchbook. After digressing the image for awhile the flower pattern did not work and it bothered me. So I edited the flowers into a more interesting pattern and composition. This is the beauty of painting vs. photography. I can use the basics from nature but I can edit to make better art. Now I will wait and see if I like the painting enough to make a larger version.
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