Friday, June 20, 2008

Barn at Sordoni Farm

22x30, watercolor


This is the barn at Sordoni Farm. It's a large barn set into a rolling hillside. I used the watercolor to accentuate the rolling hills of the landscape. The flowing of the water itself accentuates the movement of the place where it initially seems static. So many landscapes seem like a moment lost in time. Barns are often depicted in paintings as vintage and romanticized; it often seems as if they only ever functioned in another time and place. This is a functioning barn on a working farm. There is alot of movement that doesn't meet the eye right away...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Barn on 42nd Street


22 x 30, watercolor

A few months ago I began to photograph barns. I wanted to do a barn related painting for the Hillside Farms' show. The show was kind of yucky, to put it nicely, but it has inspired me. This is the first in a series...hopefully a large series....

(Yes, this barn is on 42nd Street)