LATE FALL LANDSCAPE

(C) 2014 Dale DiMauro

This little landscape is a watercolor (12" x 16") of a barn and outbuilding in a nearby town just before December. The days have shortened and the light is low.This stark landscape quality with the mist over the cornfields is reminiscence of early morning in the late fall in Vermont. I like the subtle shadows and moisture in the air, which seem to give the buildings a mysterious presence. I mixed blues and yellows to echo a cool green lawn area offsetting the barn red. It seemed important to really define the eve shadows under the metal roof in the foreground to convey weight and depth. The sky was washed in with a tint of red to exaggerate the stillness of the air.

One of the challenges in this picture was to keep it simple and not overdue it. This meant keeping the composition uncomplicated and readable. It also meant keeping the color palette really basic. I do not know if I succeeded, but I do like that the viewer is subtly drawn in to the picture and led to the distant mist.