Sunday, April 8, 2012

THE PRESERVE AT WALNUT SPRINGS

On Saturday morning, I went out with painting buddy Jimmy Longacre to a new gated subdivision in Johnson City, called The Preserve at Walnut Springs. It's a beautiful 2000+ acre hill country ranch being subdivided into 66 non-contiguous 5-7 acre parcels, with 1500 acres to remain undeveloped. What's really nice about painting there is that they cleared out all the cedar and left stands of native oaks. It was definitely worth the 45 minute drive from my house.

We both did 3 studies: a 2 hour 9x12, a one hour 6x8, and another 2 hour 9x12. Here are mine.



2012-04-07 Walnut Springs 1
12x9"

2012-04-07 Walnut Springs 2
6x8"

In reality, the main tree in the 2nd painting was pretty boxy, but the painting emphasized it too much, I think. The main problem is the even distance from the top and side. To fix that, I should have let it go out past the edges of the canvas.

2012-04-07 Walnut Springs 3
9x12"

4 comments:

  1. Hi Frank! Thanks for visiting the Preserve. What a wonderful job you have done capturing the beauty of the ranch. Hope to see you again.
    Jasmin
    Marketing Manager
    www.walnut-springs.com

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    1. Thanks for the nice comments, Jasmin. You have a beautiful place, and I would love to paint there again.

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