Painted on location near Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico.
”Trees and Shadows” 14”x16” (#637) oil on canvas by Lee Gordon Seebach
Common, ordinary landscape scenes often strike my fancy. Here, some interesting trees along an irrigation ditch did it for me. I especially liked the lighting, the cast shadows, the diagonal created by the ditch, and the colors.
It has been written in several biographies that John Singer Sargent - one of my painting heroes - would plop down just about anywhere and start painting. He said he thought a painter ought to be able to paint anything that Nature presents to him. I figure that, yes, it’s swell to be able to paint anything, but why not look around a bit and find something inspiring? I don’t just paint anything, in other words. I need something that gets my creative juices flowing and I say to myself, "Oh, wow! I've got to paint that!"
I hope you enjoy seeing this painting.
More to come,
Lee
My website: Seebach Fine Art
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