I remember throughout my childhood seeing cotton fields as I drove or rode around the countryside in Georgia. Now when I drive to Georgia to visit my mother, I pass quite a few cotton fields. Cotton fields are strikingly beautiful! I love the look of the cottony whiteness covering the ground. I've stopped several times on my way to or from Georgia to take photos to use in painting. Finally, this past week, I followed through and painted one of the fields. I painted it while I was visiting my mother. This field in my painting is actually in Alabama - just a few miles from the Georgia border.
I like the trees - I'm not sure about the cotton. Overall, I like it - although I'm not sure I have it where it looks definitively like a cotton field. It could be a white-flowered field. There wasn't a creek in my photo, but I felt the painting needed something more of interest. So I added the creek and the rock in the foreground. Otherwise, it follows the photograph fairly well. If I "widened the lens" there would be a house on the far left. I may re-paint it and widen the perspective to include the house.
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