“The most important thing
a painter can do is find
a good place to sit.”
— J.E.H. MacDonald
I started this miniature on location in 2019, deep into a hollow that reveals a natural site which offered the only large amount of “refrigeration” available to Kentucky pioneers in the region. My vision for a final look required more indoor time than could ever meet a qualification for en plein air. Paper can be a stern schoolmaster in the studio at times, and I’ve been known to get prickly under his tutelage, but Mother Nature smiles when I “return home.”
(above, left) A collage ‘start’ in the woods taking shape on my clipboard.
(above, right) The completed location work fell short of a finished landscape.
Cave Spring
collage miniature by J A Dixon
started on location / finished indoors
7.25 x 7.5 inches
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