Fixin' it Up, oil on gessoed watercolor paper, 6x8"
Every Sunday my daughter Barrett has rehearsal with the Louisville Youth Orchestra. The location of the rehearsal is the high school that my older children attended. It is situated in the "Old Louisville" historic neighborhood, so there are plenty of places to walk, look and photograph during a three hour period of the day. Last week, I decided to take my painting gear and venture out, expecting to get about 2 1/2 hours worth of work done. After all, it was a beautiful day. I set up to paint these beautiful, smaller homes of the typically Victorian neighborhood and within thirty minutes, after basically accomplishing a loose sketch, the wind had gotten the best of me. I started packing up and was approached by a very nice, curious young man named RJ, who admired my painting and eventually revealed he owned the yellow house. He said he was doing a lot of work to it, because it had been a "fixer upper" when he bought it.
