Canola Field - Landscape Oil Painting

Canola Field - 6x6" Oil on cradled wood panel

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Painting is providing me with a much needed break from work at the moment.

The setting sun is lighting up the side of the barn and small sheds in this painting. I love canola fields. They provide an opportunity for more more colourful paintings. I find that I enjoy painting these small 6x6' panels. They can be completed fairly quickly, which is a good thing right now.

Sometimes the photograph doesn't show the true qualities of the painting. This one is very close.

These wood cradled panels are first sealed, then primed with 2 coats of gesso, then 2 coats of burnt sienna. This one is .75" deep.

Long Shadows - Landscape Oil Painting

Long Shadows 8x10 oil on gallery depth cradled panel

I love texture especially when it becomes part of the image.

I enjoy taking photographs from the car as my husband is driving. I like the random images that result from trying to capture something in an accidental manner. Occasionally I get images that appeal to me as painting subjects and most of the time not. This image appealed to me because of the long shadows on the farmer's field, the colour of the shadows and shed combined with the soft green of the grain growing there.