Sketch Marathon Day 12: More Abstraction

A painting of fields at Millville Road in Upperville VA

Millville Road. 7x5, oil on linen panel. 2016

One of the things that I've been working on over the past couple of weeks has been an increased emphasis on abstraction. It's not that I suddenly want to declare myself an abstract painter, I just want to use it as a way to place more emphasis on the light and the shapes. All that comes, of course, at the expense of the representation of forms.


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