In the past couple of weeks I’ve worked to put final touches on my pumpkin patch painting. This included: grating down the windmills and also painting in a blade on the larger windmill. ( i didn’t want to do this because i thought it looked too in-your-face in the photo, but teacher insisted. Her argument was that the windmill wouldn’t work without the blade. I said i didn’t care whether it worked or not. I lost. And it turned out to be fun to put in the blade just free-hand without worrying too much about whether it matched the photo, which i didn’t want anyway.) I’m pleased with some things about this painting — like the colors of the pumpkins, figuring out how to make the shadows look shadow-y. I don’t like the shapes of pumpkins– i wouldn’t buy any of these for Halloween. I learned a good bit about perspective in trying to get the field in the background and the barn to work. Definitely worth the effort in terms of stuff to think about..
LJ and NJ 