From the Artist: This is a sketch of home, Berkshire Cty Ma.
From the Painting Guide: The clouds in this painting are truly dramatic, the hills have a great sense of vegetation, and the foreground looks like you could put your hand down into newly ploughed soil. (In my imagination I see a farmer parking his tractor in the barn, having got his field ploughed just in time for the rain.) But for some reason they all seem separate, rather than united. There are three bands: the blues of the sky, the strong green, and the browns.
I think the hard edges to the purple hills in the distance, the green and the brown create the separation. If they'd been softer, more fuzzy, maybe the elements would tie together better. For example, look at the very sharp, dark purple edge on the left-hand side and compare this to the lighter one on the right-hand side where there's also a touch of purple in the cloud.
From the Painting Guide: The clouds in this painting are truly dramatic, the hills have a great sense of vegetation, and the foreground looks like you could put your hand down into newly ploughed soil. (In my imagination I see a farmer parking his tractor in the barn, having got his field ploughed just in time for the rain.) But for some reason they all seem separate, rather than united. There are three bands: the blues of the sky, the strong green, and the browns.
I think the hard edges to the purple hills in the distance, the green and the brown create the separation. If they'd been softer, more fuzzy, maybe the elements would tie together better. For example, look at the very sharp, dark purple edge on the left-hand side and compare this to the lighter one on the right-hand side where there's also a touch of purple in the cloud.