However, this painting ended up being too much like another painting I found. I made some changes, and of course my painting is nowhere near as good as the one I used for inspiration. Still, I wouldn't enter this one in any competition since the general scene is taken from someone else's painting. I copied the shape of the barn, the way the road curves around and behind the barn, the fence and a building in the field behind the barn. This first photo shows the barn after I got the basics blocked in.
I added the fence, a house in the background, some clouds, and some grass in the middle of the road. In the painting I was looking at, there were blue flowers in the left foreground. I wanted queen Anne's lace, but the white just didn't look right. So I changed them to yellow flowers.
Then I got carried away and added more yellow flowers - and they didn't look realistic at all. However, if I painted over them, it would make the painting look worse from all the dried paint shapes underneath the top paint.
Plus, all the flowers were facing in the same direction. I was not happy with the painting. I really liked the barn, the road and the fence - although the barn leans to the right! Good lesson in getting basic shapes blocked in correctly to begin with! I changed the barn doors to metal gates - which I really like. The flowers need to be changed, but I think I'd have to re-do the entire painting to make that change. So I declared the painting done. I will probably do this painting again on a different canvas - using oil paints next tine instead of acrylics. All in all, I like "Dirt Road Barn" - I just see lots of changes that I need to make.
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| "Dirt Road Barn" - June 2016 (Acrylic paint on canvas) |
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