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| Over the Garden Fence, 8 x 10 in, Oil on panel © Jim Serrett |
The garden has been the inspiration for several paintings
and sketches, this day I thought I would be painting some natural arrangement
of flowers with lots of pops of colors. But what caught my attention were the
simple tree forms over the garden fence. There was such a nice atmosphere
within the trees and interesting transitions of hard and soft edges. This view is
one of those things you know you have looked at dozens of times but never quite
saw. Subject matter and inspiration are
everywhere, sometimes it just takes putting the brakes on a little. Slowdown, take
nature in and you just might be surprised by what you’ve overlooked.
When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first
thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture. --John Constable
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