Painting No. 92, Evening Light
Fredericksberg, California
8"x10", oil on linen
Thursday evening....finally no snow or rain.
From this vantage point I can nearly see all the way to Jack's Valley. Ranch houses are spread out and interspersed with irrigation ditches and willow hedges forming a patch work quilt of pasture land and alfalfa fields.
The evening is quiet, the only traffic is people returning home from work. Curiously, once the sun finally dips behind Jobs Peak, my sense of smell is altered. There are no cows within a quarter mile yet they smell like their standing next to me, almost overpowering.
This painting is an example of what Edgar Payne referred to as a "steel yard" composition. Where a large object is placed on one side of the painting and another smaller object on the opposite side, with a point of interest closer to the big object which acts a balance point for the composition.
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