First Snow Farm Nov 18, 2019
Patience: the ability to wait, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed.
Well, I’ve been patiently waiting years for just the right conditions to paint this beautiful farm. Everything was finally right last week.
While painting it however, the truth occurred to me. The subject has been right all along. It was just waiting for me.
Enjoy the video HERE
12X16
Oil on linen panel
Oh Peter, Thank you so much. I got to meet you last week at the Vermont Watercolor meeting in Middlebury and that made me so happy! I especially appreciated the beginning of the video when you were venturing out and you said, “Follow your heart”. Wise words and a wonderful video showing how you masterfully do just that.
Another home run!
I just love this one. It reminds me so much of our farm in Northern Minnesota when I was a little girl. The big white barn and house. Thank you for making another Monday for me.
Beautiful! Having met you earlier this autumn, I know that you “Follow your Heart”
and that you take each of us on your travels through Vermont. Thank you, Peter
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video!
oh my .. that’s looks so cold.. ,, I grew up in Buffalo with lots of snow
Beautiful. I could feel the crispness of the cold and coldness of the snow. I felt as if I was standing in the barnyard and could see my breath. Living in the South we do not see as much of this.
Loved watching your creativity with the brush, you make it look effortless. I can see your passion with every glance to the left and with every stroke of paint. Your joy is reflected in your work and my joy is in enjoying what you do. Thank you Peter.
Love this painting and watching you paint! Someday I hope to see your studio and meet you in person!
lovely…. absolutely a beautiful creation… thank you .. haha I want to sit and watch you paint… for hours.. i would be as quiet as a mouse.. .. lol.. barns are one of my favorites too.. appreciate your inspirations..
Hello Peter,
You may recall that you painted a beautiful rendition of my general store a few years back (The Tyson Village Store in Tyson, VT. I sold the store two years ago and retired to the place of my boyhood.
I’m settled into my new home nestled in the beautiful Cotswolds of West Oxfordshire in England and want you to know that the oil painting I purchased just before leaving Vermont occupies a place of honor in my new home. It reminds me every day if those wonderful years and lovely folks who became customers and friends during all those years I stood behind my store’s counter.
I wish you and yours peace and well being for the coming New Year.
Love the brushwork of your snow!!
Wow, Beautiful
I really enjoy watching you at work, Peter! It’s very relaxing and you create beautiful pieces!!
I grew up near that farm.
Wow, really nice! Also appreciated the video and your words….”it’s like putting block together as a kid”…that inspired me to keep being free with my paintings!
Loved the video…Can’t believe you paint with a glove on.
I also noticed a few of my uncle’s brushes (Robert Simmons) in your collection!
Thanks again for the inspiration.
Oh Peter, you take us everywhere in VT. Another beautiful painting. Love this one!
I love watching you paint, also love the finished product. Keep up the great work.
Masterful! I’m glad I watched your video. I’ve always loved paintings of snowy scenes – this is exquisite! Now I have to decide whether to get a print. With one of yours already on my wall, I don’t have a lot of space. Hmm.
Wow, so nostalgic! Saw a Vermont view like this almost every winter day from the window of my school bus on South Road so many years ago!
Wow ! That’s is just amazing… so great to watch a painting come to live. Thanks for sharing this!
Isa Oehry
Love watching how your artist mind works. Fascinating. Love this painting.
Peter, Enjoyed the very much! Stopped oil painting years ago but you just might have tickled that desire to pick it up again. Thanks.
I like the colors of autumn, but I LOVE the color of snow! Nice brushwork on this one. Interesting textures too. Do I see tracks of newly installed snow tires in the foreground?
Colors of Winter – love those bare, naked trees – shame on me !! Thanks for the “lift” !!
This is so beautiful. I love this time of year, once into it, seeing the skeletons of trees and that first snow, which you have captured so beautifully. Thanks so much for sharing your process and your thoughts about the subject.
Peter, I so enjoy watching your videos as they are both instructive, and fun to watch. You mention “following your heart,” and that is certainly reflected in all of your paintings. Thank you for sharing your passion with us.
I love seeing the “bones” of the trees with snow on them. Years ago I bought one of your paintings at a craft fair in Rutland. It’s of trees with sap buckets hanging. I like your colorful paintings but love the subtlety of your more monotone ones.
I am impressed with your technique
Enjoyed the video! Not sure if we’ll get snow this Winter in N. Texas, but if we do I’ll certainly try to conquer
painting a snow scene.
wow that is a lovely scene you captured!
Thank you all for the comments and continued support! Just home from two days of gathering more “snow” imagery. I do love painting winter scenes.
Thanks for sharing your very artistic techniques. Great talent!,,
Marilyn
Peter, you knock it out of the park again. Beautiful. I think my next painting will be in oils again. Love how it can be pushed around. Thank you again.