Last Year's Crops
I just spent the last ten minutes writing up a thing about this painting, only to look back at what I originally wrote about it when I painted it back in February. Guess what?! It was the exact same thing, only not quite as good... So I deleted it and I'm just copying what I wrote about it before. Please enjoy past-Zech's words.
My favorite part about a snowy Michigan winter is that it brings a linearity to the landscape. Trees loose their leaves, and all the lines of the trunks and branches are visible. Snow fills the fields, and the cut corn-stalks show the lines the seed-planter followed the spring before.
That guy was pretty smart!
Here are some details from the painting. I love the palette knife stroke for the distant field in the last photo.