Barn Sketches for Fall

I'm realizing that a lot of these November sketches are of barns. I suppose there's just something about a good barn in the fall. Trees losing a good number of their leaves reveals more of the barn, changes the landscape a bit, and just allows for a slightly different view. I've always had something for the rather skeletal forms of winter trees, and that definitely helps in this one too - the sketch is flanked by two bare trees. I think a lot of what makes this sort of thing work is that there is just a lot more linearity. to the compositions, as opposed to when everything is green and obfuscating. Here, all the lines of the barn, fences and trees can be properly described by the medium. I think I might go ahead and ruin this one with a bit of ink was tomorrow, though, just to see how it goes.

-ZR