Central Air

Central Air, 5x7

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The cool of Ohio's summer evenings can seem surreal to someone visiting from central Texas. The representation above of yet another rustically beautiful Ohio barn — with its open windows and doors allowing the breeze through — pretty much sums up the way I felt about the visit.

Barn On Avalon Road

Barn On Avalon Road, 6x6

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These farm structures stand about a quarter-mile outside Malvern, Ohio, heading south along Avalon Road, toward Lake Mohawk. The evening before I returned home, I drove all over the area to get as much photographic reference as I could. I was intrigued by this scene, in the way the buildings were nicely tucked into the road embankment and how their geometric shapes radiate out in different directions. The telephone pole approximates the vertical axis of the group.

As The Sun Sets, A Lake Rises

A Lake Rises, 8 x 10

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Thursday evening, a few of us from the Plein Air Austin group painted the sunset at the beautiful home of Lynn Cohagan, which overlooks Lake Travis. (Next time, I want to paint her house. It's SO beautiful).
Thanks to more frequent rain in the last two months, the lake is finally starting to fill back up. It still has over thirty-five feet to go to reach its normal level, but we're glad it's heading in the right direction, for a change.

This is my first attempt at painting a sunset, but since Laurel was painting close by, I wasn't as intimidated by the task as I would have been, had such fool-proof help not been so readily available.