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| Morning Aspen Shadows, oil on panel, 16 x 12 (This painting isn't as dark as it appears in this photo.) |
August 31. At the private residence where we've been invited to paint for the day, it's already warm, and the dry grasses glow in the low-angle sunlight. Shadows on the barns are changing fast, and the house is already emerging into sunlight from its protective grove of trees. As I make my way across the field, I hear a burbling sound, brief, but repeating. Behind a group of pines is a spring, surging with bubbles, then subsiding. Spreading water trails across the field, evident in green swathes of grass. I round the spring and set up in the shade of some aspen. Everything here depends on the chance location of water.
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