Fall Shows Coming Right Up!

I am working very hard to get ready for fall art shows.
There's not only the painting - first of all they have to be scanned or photographed for my files, framed so they will look their best, inventoried so that I have a record of the pieces for tax time and for future reference, and packaged for transport - even if they're only going to a local gallery.
After all of the investment of supplies, time and expenses, they need to be protected.
For this fall I have, for the first time, done a series of farm paintings.
I have several paintings of bales and stacks of bales, a swather in the field swathing grain, and cattle in the field.
My inspiration for these paintings came right from my own home since I live on a dairy farm. The men in the family do the farming (three brothers), but I view the amazing backdrop of grain and hay fields every day.
It was great fun and a terrific challenge to paint these farm scenes in a way that does them justice. Warm, glowing fields as the sun sets; a single bale serving as a sentinel on the field; cattle lazily grazing on pasture - I can only hope that I have done them some justice.

The paintings in this posting are part of a 'Knee High' feature in a show at Johnson Gallery Thursday, Oct. 4 from 5 - 9 p.m. The Knee High features a veariety of subjects that one would see at or below knee height. It was great painting them, but it was at least as much fun coming up with the concepts for these special little paintings that are all 8 x 10."
I will soon be starting a new painting and I intend to post pictures as it progresses. My challenge will be remembering to photograph the painting since I get very wrapped up in the process and lose track of things like taking pictures.