Painting for friends

not a great photo.  Took it on the day of delivery.

Second painting from the over processed nature photo taken at my parent's house in my youth.  This one was requested by my good friend Annie Stuart (Ridlon) Perry.  Annie Banani Ridlon.  Maker of  "Art Day", partner in city wanderings we called "Wednesdays" in college.  We have had few and far between "Wednesdays" in this chapter of my life.  Days where anything can happen and anything is welcomed when we walk out our front door.  I barely walk out the front door unless I have somewhere to go.  Gas is expensive, and the city is lonely.


I walked out the front door of my Parent's house near sunset my Freshman year of college and took this photo.  The light looked AWESOME, and I imagined in my head that the Hobbits were any minute going to be walking by in the woods.  I took the picture fully intending to process it and use it as a reference for a drawing with just that, fantasy creatures walking by.  


Never happened.  I used this photo to make another painting like this one for my cousin, and when Annie saw it she wanted one so I made one, and when brought to the Perry household on New Years Day to be gifted the story came out.  Matt wants one with a gnome.  No problem. 

Take three to be started shortly on the badly processed photo to be given new life.  Thanks CVS for doing such a horrible job on the developing, back in the day.