The Poet of the Canola - Posted on June 19, 2016 at 9:00 AM

Posted on June 19, 2016 at 9:00 AM

     While working on the Slumbering Souls Meadow plein air series I ran across this field of canola. It was too good to pass on and I wanted to make sure I had a chance to paint it before it got harvested so I took a day away from the meadow. It was a fairly surreal experience being in front of such audacious color for so long. The color and the value clashes gave me the sort of feeling you get from looking over an enormous expanse like the Grand Canyon. A feeling of having lost all sense of the space in front of you. Like knowing your sense perception isn't quite capable of comprehending what you're looking at. Staring into a space not relative to anything you know.