One more!  I completed this one before A Working Harbor and posted it to my Facebook page.  Got an email from Duane Wakeham saying that I should deal with the roof!!!  Duane is my mentor and a really wonderful guy!  I was surprised because normally he only sees painting I post to the PSA page. He went looking for this one!  In the original version, the roof and sky were the same value and he suggested that I change one or the other. I didn’t want to darken the roof a lot or the sky. But I resolved it but bringing some of the cloud color against the roof, and adding a slightly darker blue at the edge.

Compositionally, I made several changes in this one that I think helped it a lot. The tree line at left was at the same height as the house, so I raised it. And there was a lot more greenery to the right of the house, which I condensed. The final change was to open up the field at bottom with some of the sand color from the roadway, which kept the field from being a large block!  I thought about leaving the field unfinished, but the underpainting wasn’t that inspiring.  I used watercolor again, thinking it might work, but ended up covering it.

This picture was taken on our trip to Maine in 2009. I loved the house and porch, but also the car sitting in the field. Does it run?  Is there a driveway there?  It’s a little mysterious and soooo Maine!  I really liked the telephone poles and the mail box, as well, which ass some more interest to the picture.  These paintings are potentially for the gallery in Blue Hill for next summer.  I haven’t been doing anything with fall color!  Finally got to the Canal and Capitol Hill on Friday and Saturday, so perhaps a few fallish paintings are on their way!

A Maine Summer, 20 x 24, UART 400