Red Barn on Bailey Road

I was driving down Bailey Road in Leiper’s Fork and saw this barn.  It is out in the country (no traffic), and so I stopped the car, rolled down the window and took some photos.  I used one of the photos to paint this yesterday.  I figure that since I didn't even have to get out of my car to take the photo, that I didn't need to get permission to take it or to paint from it.  I wonder what the protocol is for something like that.  I know you have to get permission to do en plein air painting on someone's property (of course) - but to take a photo from the road . . . I don't know.  I hope it's okay. 

As I looked at my painting, I realize that I HAVE to work on color mixing.  My greens are too yellow. I definitely need more blue in the green.  One of the artists I took several lessons from, Kay Keyes Farrar, mixes her colors before she starts painting.  That might be a good idea.  I tend to mix as I go - and I either don't mix enough and have to keep mixing more, OR I mix so much I have lots leftover at the end.  I've asked Kay and another artist about having a class on mixing colors.  I'm still waiting to hear back.

I went over the painting later and added more viridian based color (blue green).  There’s a glare in the upper left, but I think overall the color is better.  

Bailey Road Barn (Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee)

Along a backwoods road

A barn, red and faded

Lies nestled among the trees

Sunlight filters into the field beyond

Country life in Leiper's Fork