Evening with Thistles This painting is actually the view to the West of the Other Place Barn. There is the remainder of my grandfather's childhood home behind those trees. The only remainders of the rock house are two walls. I would like to put the house in some how to make it apart of this scene but you really don't see it from this spot so I will have to fib. The way I pieced this painting together with these three sections is to really show you all you would see if you'd look closely. This whole area is overgrown so there are thistles all over. I wanted them to be the focal point so I put as much detail into them as I could. They may be a weed but I think they are beautiful. They also may not appear proportional, but if you sit on the ground right in front of one this is what you would see.
I would say this painting is unfinished, but that would mean I would have to come back to it and I just don't know what to do. The windmill in the background was not laid out proportionally to the size of the canvas and so it will not fit. It was there but I covered it up with the sky because it did not look right. Turns out it would actually be going off the top of the canvas if I did it correctly. This is a lesson in why you plan and sketch ahead of time instead of eye-balling things. For now I will leave it this way until something comes to me.
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