Early Harvest, 20×20, acrylic on canvas © Michelle Basic Hendry Finally a new painting – and with a curious name in October! The harvest is certainly over…. The fields were so green that, it seemed to me, it was still mid-summer – even though I took my reference photographs in mid-September. I think the hay […]
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Wheat Field, acrylic on canvas, 20″x20″ ©Michelle Basic Hendry, 2008 I learned that the field I had to cross to get this painting was freshly planted with wheat. It looked like neatly spaced rows of grass in a green so rich in light and deep in shadow. I selected three images to end up as […]
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Twilight, 36″x24″, acrylic Well – it was close – a long night and an intense day – but it is finished. It was a wonderful learning experience and it will be fun to see it after having not been able to look at it for a couple of days. Photographs are never the same… and […]
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I have had a bit of an absence from posting lately, largely due to the fact that I got visited by one of those pesky viruses and I have had a bit of trouble shaking it! I am sure that is in no small way related to the pressure I am feeling over my slow […]
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