Cornfield
The last landscape did so well I decided to tackle another , a more ambitious one this time. I like autumn and the sweet smell of corn on cool fall air . I enjoy the drive between Milford and Rehoboth as it takes me past farms and fields. So I honor the harvest season with this picture of a cornfield as its being cut. I liked the challenge of maintaining order , as the corn is planted in a grid...yet.. each stalk itself is an individual growing as it may . I admit I really bogged myself down with time consuming details on this picture but I am pleased with the result. The last touches were the soft blue corn flowers and black eyed daisies in the forground.
The original has been SOLD. Limited edition , signed and numbered prints are also available for $70.00. The Cornfield as well as Bombay Hook , only comes in the one size . The image itself being 10" wide and 16" long. The unusual rectangular shape combined with such fine details would make a smaller print difficult to appreciate . I hope that you saw Cornfield in person before seeing it here online because the details are something, even for me, a person who goes after them. It was a difficult picture to ink but I am very glad that I did.
Bombay Hook
This was my first departure from my usual close up and detailed way of doing things . I stepped back to take a wider look and inked this landscape of layered trees & grasses found just outside Bombay Hook. Bombay Hook is a wildlife refuge near Smyrna Delaware. It is home to many types of marshland creatures , water birds , turtles , deer, fox . I am often struck by the way that nature leaves no part of earth unused , empty. This is a picture of the beginnings of a forest. The taller trees rise in the backround, saplings growing forward , towards the sun, away from the parent trees . They push past young cedar , that grew through the grasses , that crowd the marsh. No place left empty. In the sky beyond I dotted in the snow geese , circling.
This painting won a ribbon for "Best of Show" at the Dover Art League , May 2004 , in a juried show entitled Delaware Landscapes . The original sold before the show closed but limited edition signed and numbered prints are available for $70.00.
The prints only come in one size because of the unusual rectangular shape.