Lakefield Farm

Lakefield Farm

I just completed my latest watercolor in what I am beginning to think of as the "While Walking Millie" collection. I was walking down Millspring Drive in our neighborhood last May and glanced across the street to the "barns" from the old Hillandale Dairy, now called Lakefield Farm. I've always liked the looks and grouping of these barns and thought this would make a good painting. So I took a couple of minutes, much to Millie's dismay, to walk back and forth to get the perspective I liked and took a couple pictures on my phone. A few days later I drew the scene on a block of watercolor paper and set it aside while I painted "On the Way To Dairy Pond". Well........I stalled while painting "On the Way" getting sidetracked with golf, fishing and woodwork for the Durham Craft Market Holiday Shows and did not start on Lakefield Farm until last week. I omitted a barn in the background on the left because it was straight on with no perspective and took some license with the trees. It is 16"X22" on Arches 140# hot press paper. I hope you enjoy it!

I posted "On the Way to Dairy Pond" on FaceBook but never here on the blog, so here it is again.

On the Way To Dairy Pond