Vignoble de Ribeauvillé, oil on gessobord, 6x8 inches
I fall into a hypnotic state when I stare at a vineyard. I wonder who's systematic approach was used years ago (sometimes over one hundred) when planning and planting the fields. How did they get everything so symmetrical? Symmetry is a tricky thing to paint because you have to do the scene justice for those planners of yore. I painted this scene from Ribeauvillé , France at the end of August and sat on it for a while. After I received a new paint order which included a vibrant pre-mixed green, I used it to accent the fields. Only then did I finally feel like it honored the integrity of the actual landscape.
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