Barn with Daisies and Wildflowers

Old barns and buildings make fascinating subjects for photographs and paintings.  This old barn with attached sheds was particularly interesting because of the bright daisies and blue wildflowers growing around its foundation.  And the river running behind these buildings simply added an extra touch of interest.  This is a 6x6 inch palette knife painting on canvas and is available directly from the artist.  Contact at pwhitacre@att.net.  Enjoy!

A Road Not Often Traveled.....A palette knife painting

This  5x7 oil painting on stretched canvas takes us back a bit into earlier American history.  Before the advent of modern day technology and automobiles, covered bridges were built in many of the rural areas of our nation.  Horses and horse and buggy traffic were the common means for travel in that period and today there are still a few bridges that remain in use.  Many communities have taken it upon themselves to keep the bridges in good condition and to add necessary support to accomodate modern cars.  Many others have simply been destroyed or allowed to deteriorate to such an extent that they are no longer useful.  Still others are open for foot traffic in park areas.  They still have the power to carry us back to a simpler time and place in our nation's history.  This painting is available directly from the artist.  Enjoy!

A Road Not Often Traveled....A palette knife painting.

Covered bridges are symbolic of a time in our nation's history when life was simpler, and travel was limited to horse and buggy or horseback or just plain walking.  Many of these old buildings dot the landscape along roads that are out of the mainstream of traffic.  I used to think that New England was the main area for finding covered bridges but they can show up in many of our states.  Remember the movie "The Bridges of Madison County?"  Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep brought attention to a set of covered bridges in the mid-west through their romantic story.  Some of these structures are sill in use today though limited to light weight traffic.  Others are strictly for looking at or at best for walking through.  Such photogenic buildings allow us a brief flight of fancy back to a time when life was less complicated than it is today.  This  small painting is avaiable by contacting the artist.  Enjoy!