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I've been drawing and painting as long as I can remember, copying comic book panels as a kid, a career as a designer and animator, and the last twelve years as a painter. Hope you enjoy the work.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Along Highway 29

18x36 Oil

This is a studio painting I started a couple months ago thinking it would hang in one of 2 shows I had opening in December. I got to a certain point on it and I got stuck, which happens. It's not a matter of how to finish it, but the best way to finish it. So it leaned facing the wall of my studio for a few weeks. Then driving back from Michigan to St. Paul I hit a stretch along Highway 29 west of Wausau when the light and scenery was very similar to this painting. I didn't have a camera with me (I know!) so I just kept making mental notes on the color of everything and completed it in a few hours a couple of days ago. It's freeing to work from your memory and painting so much from life over the last 12 years has given me the foundation for it.
Posted by Richard Abraham

2 comments:

  1. TracieJuly 8, 2011 at 12:10 PM

    This painting is gorgeous.

    I'm already finding that even my little pen-and-watercolor landscapes are building my ability to work from memory. It's one of the things I'm enjoying most about the learning process.

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  2. Susan RouxDecember 12, 2011 at 7:53 AM

    Beautiful colors in this Richard. Lovely!

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