An Afternoon with the French Rolls
Oil on Masonite
14″ x 5.5″ (35.56cm x 13.97cm)
When traveling through out Europe, particularly through France during the late summer, early fall time, the thing that I look for the most is seeing those bright golden fields splattered with those enourmous hay rolls.
I had the desire all week to make another painting, yet our clinic is busy, since we are all, and I mean all 5 of us sick in bed with a horrendous flu. I’ve being feeling a little better for the past 2 days, at least no more fever (yay!), and since hubby is here cooking despite him feeling so sick with the flu I was able to enter into the studio today. I started the painting this morning, yet not in one sitting as I would have loved and as I used, darn neck and arm pain are stuck in my body, but in blocks of 15-20 minutes throughout the day, so today was a long day of resting and a little bit of painting.
This painting was more loose, sort of than my usual one, yet I really enjoyed painting it. The problem with doing a painting in blocks rather than in one sitting is the natural light changes so much that I had to adjust my palette every time I was entering the studio for another short session, which happened in total about 13 times throughout the day.
4 Comments
I love this painting. And you bring back memories from my childhood. I remember those rolled hay rolls in Europe. They’d be spread all over the fields waiting for a truck to come by and pick them up. And you don’t realize how gigantic they are until you come close to them.
I hope you and your family gets well soon. That’s a bummer when your whole clan gets sick at the same time.
Best of luck with your auction.
Vikki
March 22, 2009
Hi Vikki!~finally you were able to post! yay!!
I’m glad you like this painting. Hay rolls are, believe it or not, one of my favorite things to paint! LOL! they are truly majestic looking things in those French fields. You know they come in different sizes?! I knew thanks to a farmer in Spain, not too far away from where we used to live outside of Bilbao. Still the small one is really big!
Thank you for your best wishes. We are feeling a little better, but my daughter not quite. She’s still miserable in bed with fever, poor thing! so canceling school for tomorrow.
The auctions are up and running constantly, yet my clients are not quite sure how to “bid” since I’m not eBay lol! go figure!
Thank you for stopping by!
Manuela./
March 25, 2009
pretty!!!!
March 25, 2009
Thank you Johanna!
and thank you for stopping by!
March 22, 2009