“Summertime”
8x10" oil on panel

I am so glad I did this painting. After lunch on an unusually hot day in Winston-Salem, I came very close to talking myself out of it.

I’d been to this scene earlier (before lunch) on a commission to do a watercolor of someone’s house. Well, the trees in front were beautiful, but they all but hid the house. Please note. If you want a portrait of a house where its landscape includes many trees, do consider having the artist do the work or reference photos of the house when the trees are bare.

So, although I did not come away with the watercolor I was commissioned to do, my customer is willing to wait, and liked this oil painting well enough to purchase it.

Moral of the story for artists: follow your gut, your brain,  and your good conscience.