Art Opening this Friday on Bainbridge

Study for Wheat 1. ©2011 Lisa McShane. Oil on Linen. 8" x 8".

This Friday, 6-8pm, is the opening of Invitational Small Works Exhibit at Roby King Galleries on Bainbridge. If you're in the area I hope you'll stop by!

Study for Wheat 1 is one of several small studies I spent months with over the spring, summer and into September. I paint a great many paintings of fields, especially wheat fields, and have struggled with them. Deborah Paris made some suggestions last spring and I diligently went to work trying them out. Study for Wheat 1 was a back and forth process of opaque paint with thin, transparent paint glazed over and wiped off.


Comments

Anne-Marie said…
It's beautiful - I don't know what it looked like before the suggestions but whatever you did definitely worked. You can see the light shining through in the painting. Love it!
December 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM
Anne-Marie said…
It's beautiful - I don't know what it looked like before the suggestions but whatever you did definitely worked. You can see the light shining through in the painting. Love it!
December 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM
kat said…
This painting is peaceful and has an attention to shapes that I appreciate. Congrats on your art opening.
December 6, 2011 at 2:04 PM
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