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Pennsylvania Night Scene Painting

          

          

            
"Moonlit Hay
            Bales, VI"
            
11" x
            14"
            
Oil on Panel
            
No. 247
          

          

            
In this Pennsylvania
            Night Scene Painting, "Moonlit Hay Bales, VI," an original
            oil on panel, I wanted to continue exploring an ongoing arrangement
            of hay bales on the rolling Pennsylvania Landscape at night.
            I Painted this arrangement in an art demonstration as an example
            of how to make the luminosity and sense of depth achievable in
            the painted image and of course this just exactly where I am
            trying to go in my night scenes. I painted this image in an hour
            plus a few touch ups in the studio. I enjoy painting for the
            public and it is like singing and playing music for an audience,
            that is to say that the risk faced in failing in public does
            drive something in the edge of the subject, hopefully for the
            better and in this case painting so fast liken to painting out
            of doors the directness is part of the demeanor of the image.
            For me the the benefits are in the experience of loosening up
            and just painting without fretting with every little detail.
            Yes I know it's a bit conceptional but still the there is some
            life in this arrangement I must ring out to see where I can go
            and what I can learn on this nocturnal adventure in painted pigments.
            The sum of a painting is not always related to the time it takes
            to create it but the years of experience do seem to give to the
            act of just cutting loose and simply painting and having fun
            while doing so,,,,,