Amish Farm, 20 x 24, BFK Rives

Here is the picture with snow. You’ll notice I haven’t signed it yet!  I tried briefly to put in some corn and decided that would be a big mistake. So I used various lights to create a pattern and interest in the snow–a light blue and green and the pink I’d used before for the light areas.  I also decided that the two small green buildings (from last image) were distracting and put red over them. Now there is a progression from the reddish building in foreground of lower left to the red barn on the hill.  I think this is much more pleasing. If you look very carefully, you’ll see I couldn’t resist adding a small turquoise pail in front of the long building at lower left. I then added the color to the small building behind barn at left and in the dark shadowed area of the barn at right.  I added more trees at right, but decided to omit the one on the left, which I included in my initial drawing.  I tried to keep the trees simple and understated.  This isn’t much like the photograph, nor is it like what I imagined as I was riding in the car, but I like it!  I think the colors are more interesting and the piece is a bit more stylized.  In two weeks I’m giving a workshop to 6 people on abstracting the landscape and this was done with that workshop in mind.  I’d be interested to know what you think!