WATERCOLORS BY BRUCE

For four years, I have been able to paint on the Kuerner farm where Andrew Wyeth painted for 7 decades.  This past fall, I tried to plein air paint  postcards of several small scenes from the farm.   Here is the final watercolor.  You see the first is a view of the farm from the hay field.  The top right is the table on the front porch.  The bottom left is the back of the house and the woodshed where Anna cut wood to heat the house.  The middle is the springhouse and the watercolor on the right

PAINTING AT THE KUERNER FARM

Last week as I walked on in the fields after spraying my shoes and pant bottoms with OFF to keep off the ticks, I was able to view the farm house and barn from the field.  They cut the hay so I could walk in the field and think was Andrew here or did he prefer to go to another spot.  Well I need to do my own painting, so I decided this year it would be a long panoramic watercolor.  I cut the paper to it would fit a 7" by 33" frame.   I drew on one side of the farm looking at the barn.  As I

SUMMER AT KUERNER FARM

As we see 2016 slip into the past, we are thankful to have been able to paint and see so many of you at my shows and while I was outdoors painting.  Painting outdoors called plein air painting has changed my paintings so I am more colorful, paint quicker and focus on the more important objects to paint.  I painted all over Chester County, northern Delaware, Chesapeake City, MD, and on our different road trips.  My sketch book is always with me.  And with our daughter home for a year I

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