This is a painting about the pause before the season turns. Two thirds of the canvas is sky: silver gray clouds loosening into pale blue, all weather and patience. Down below, a low hill rolls across in greens and gold, with a blue gray ridge sitting far behind it. In the lower corner there is one small slash of yellow, easy to miss, like the first flower pushing up before anyone is watching for it.
Some paintings fill a room with energy. This one slows a room down. It has the calm of an early morning before the day gets loud, and it changes with the light: cool and silvery on a gray day, warm and open when the sun hits it.
Original oil on canvas by Bradford Brenner, 60 x 48. Painted in Healdsburg, California.
This is a painting about the pause before the season turns. Two thirds of the canvas is sky: silver gray clouds loosening into pale blue, all weather and patience. Down below, a low hill rolls across in greens and gold, with a blue gray ridge sitting far behind it. In the lower corner there is one small slash of yellow, easy to miss, like the first flower pushing up before anyone is watching for it.
Some paintings fill a room with energy. This one slows a room down. It has the calm of an early morning before the day gets loud, and it changes with the light: cool and silvery on a gray day, warm and open when the sun hits it.
Original oil on canvas by Bradford Brenner, 60 x 48. Painted in Healdsburg, California.
