This is another Pennsylvania painting–you can tell by the overcast sky.  The original photo had a very uninteresting building to the right and a lot more road. When I cropped it, it became something much more interesting.  My primary challenge was that in the photo the only reds were on the barn in back. I tried to make up for this with some pink flowers in foreground (there actually was some pink clover in the photo).  But it wasn’t enough. So I added some more of the creeper vine to the post at left. This seemed to balance the heavy concentration of red on the open building. There is a distance hill, visible above the corn field–just a little darker than the sky. I did an underpainting, using mainly warm colors–browns under the violet and pinks under the roof at left. Used siennas under the foreground grasses.  I’ve just found another image to paint from tomorrow from the view right across the street from this!

Virginia Creeper, 20 x 16, UART 500