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Country Lane

www.kirkwitmer.com

18x24" - oil on stretched canvas.
This is the second in my Dorchester series, which visits the English countryside of the late 1800's. Inspired by a movie set in that time and place.

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figurative forsale light nature oil trees

23 comments

20 loves

Cherie Harrap

Love it! Lovely colours and light!x

9 months ago

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Cherie. I found the lighting in this one difficult to achieve.

9 months

Fiona

I love the meandering path, the light and the colours!! Beautiful.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thanks Fiona. I was trying to create a story of a young girl about to leave the light and enter a dark place.

9 months

Fiona

Hope she isn't scared entering this dark place. I thought of that too as she's walking to the shadows.

9 months

Lanita Reitsma

Back to bigger things I see . Light into shadow well done and certainly food for thought

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thanks Lannie. I was gettin' burned out in the daily painting "mill".

9 months

Lanita Reitsma

do I know what you mean . Must be summer doldrums or maybe the paintings piling up

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Yeah. We'll know the economy is improving when we spend more time looking for boxes in which to ship our paintings and less time looking for places to store them.

9 months

Barbara Pirkle

Great light and shadow, Kirk! Love it, such a beautiful scene.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thanks Barbara. That contrast was one of the things I most wanted to accomplish in this piece.

9 months

Lorri Anne Maley-Bell aka lamb

Love the path covered in shadow and then sunlight. I want to take a hike down your path and enjoy first hand. Wonderful. Cheers!

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Well Lorri, git yer hikin' shoes on and be my guest! :)

9 months

Gwen

Such a beautiful landscape piece!

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thanks Gwen. It was a challenge.

9 months

Marilyn's Miniatures

Glad you sent the email Kirk! I lose people constantly on this site.. Love this...yes perfect! Great dappled shade on the road and the figure makes the landscape so big.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Had to stop and think about this because I didn't send any email and then I realized that you must have subscribed to my blog! Funny you should mention the figure. I'd thought about painting her larger and then decided to stick with my original plan. Isn't it amazing what an impact that has on the scale?

9 months

Mike

Beautiful! Love the wau the path takes you through the painting, very well done.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Glad you like it Mike. The shape of the path was a change that I made from the source photo so I'm happy to know it was for the better! :)

9 months

Myc'Art

Famtastic work Kirk! Love the depth, the light, the shadows, the trees and the lonely walker which breacks the monotony of the landscape. Superb, wonderful!! Congrats!

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Myc. It was the contrast between light and dark that I most wanted to achieve as I went into this one.

9 months

Garry Linahan

Great country scene Kirk. I've published a couple of e-books on Smashwords, the second is called The Cape and is set in an imaginary place on the coast south of Dorchester in the late 1800s, early 1900s. Having never actually been there it is probably full of errors with regard to the area but I did research to a degree, made up the rest, and it was fun to write.
Cheers, Garry.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thanks Garry

9 months

laura brown

Hey, I think this is me wondering down the road behind my house, I love this Kirk, my kind of colors, my kind of scene and great shadowing!!!! Laura P.S. I looked at the info you sent me, great stuff.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Glad you like my scene here Laura. Don't get lost on yer hike! :)

9 months

steve morris

WOW, this painting is bulging with flowers and detail.Such wonderful lighting in the right hand field.Great job.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Steve. It was fun going after that light/dark contrast.

9 months

oldivad

beautiful landscape. love the lights and mood. well painted.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Oldivad. It was a challenge. Now ... if I only had your skill at painting portraits! :)

9 months

Giorgos

fantastic very good shading even i m not the expert i think its impressive !!!!! BEAUTIFULL

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Giorgos

9 months

Carol Theologo

Love the pathway which really draws one in and the shadowy foreground is great.

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Carol. I made quite a few changes from the source and I'm glad to know that the path and shadows were for the better! :)
You can see the original at this address.
kirkwitmer.blogspot.com/2011/08/country-lane-landscape-by-kirk-witmer.html

9 months

biswaal

i can stay in that shadow for ever. this is so dream like.. so perfect.. the best shadow job i am seeing in a long time.. the plants in the shadow is some thing to look at.. brilliant..

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Oh biswaal! That is so gratifying to hear. The contrast of the light and shadow was the one thing I most wanted to accomplish when I started into this one. Now I know it's working! :)

9 months

Marie-Line Vasseur

Oh lovely I feel like I am watching a period movie!

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Marie. I'm glad you get that from it, because that was my intent. Hey! Imagine that ... my painting "works"! You've made a young man very happy! :)

9 months

darlene

Kirk, Wonderful depth, the smell of spring and the warmth of the sun are pulled through. Very nice. darlene

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Thank you Darlene, I'm glad to know you enjoy it.

9 months

jay

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww KIrk-- this is a super painting every thing about it is just right like to see it with a frame
rgds jay

9 months

Kirk Witmer

Well thank you Jay. It's currently in a very ornate, gold frame while I evaluate it. Do you have any other suggestions?

9 months

Vivian Da Artist

Hi, I'm the administrator for the group Awesome Art, and I'd love you to add this picture to the group.
This truly is!! (accepted)

9 months

jay

yes I would like that rgds jay

9 months

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After a year and a half of being involved with PIL I came to realize that I will have to limit the amount of time I give to the site. I've been spending so much time with the social aspects of PIL that it is keeping me from being productive as an artist. I'll continue to share some of my work here and will read comments from time to time, but I recognize that I must greatly limit the time I can afford for the interactive aspects of the site. I'm sorry about making this very difficult decision but I'm feeling a great need to keep my hands off the keyboard and the mouse and instead fill them with brushes and pencils.
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