Lavender Farmhouse

"Lavender Farmhouse"

Acrylic on wrapped canvas, 5" x 5"

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I finished this little painting this morning - the first landscape I've done in acrylics. I was trying too keep it simple and not go detail-mad. It helps that I used Golden's light molding paste to texture the canvas first - it changes the absorbency of the surface to be more like watercolor paper. Trying to get back into the habit of painting pictures again. I feel so good when I'm doing it! I think doing a big painting was too much - the poor thing is doomed to be painted over.

j

I took many photos of the lavender farms in Sequim on our visits, and I have many potential little paintings in my head. Do any of you Washingtonians recognize this house? It's at Purple Haze Lavender Farm. And I see on their blog that they are currently turning this farmhouse into a vacation rental!