Red Barn, Mt-Washington – Oil on Canvas

Description

I remember red barn farm on Hornby Island. I spent the summer next-door to the farm and had a fabulous view at the coast mountains in Vancouver Island, Mount Washington, off the distance.
This red barn is on the old Island Highway between Courtney and Campbell River. It is not one of the original barns because huge forest fires wiped out all the original farm houses and barns. The old Massey Harris tractor is parked in front. It was the farm vehicle that financed a group of seven Lauren Harris was related to the Harris

I deliberately bent the barn to make it appear embracing the old tractor. Large and small shapes work effectively in this composition I was attracted to this particular barn because of the colour red orange is the hottest colour on the spectrum and the blue green of the mountain in the sky are the coldest colors. Consequently, I have the maximum colour contrast. The shape of the barn also echos the shape of the mountains. Rhythmical trees, take up the middle distance, adding movement and contrast to the geometry of the man-made form circle squares and triangles organic and inorganic played off against each other. Dandelions that are everywhere in Vancouver Island, in the spring, or in the foreground.

I had to look closely to see if this is an oil change it at first I thought it was acrylic, but the colours are softer. Don’t have that plastic look. Acrylic or water-based and dry flat colours are brighter, oils, or softer, and have a much more texture ideal for this kind of subject matter, I deliberately need the buildings sharp contrast around us of the organic forms round against sharp in design everything works in opposites picking thin line, hot and cold, organic and organic etc. my signature colours the primary colors, red, yellow and blue are also present the bright yellow of the tractor wheels is repeated in the yellow dandelions, large, medium and small The black windows of the barn, add gravity, weight, and mass to the composition, and also a psychological state

The cross contours also work effectively on the barn, the rounders of the blue against the red orange. Then in the mountains, the blue forms back to show volume of the mountains as they fade into the distance.

People have a fascination with Barnes, especially prairie people. It takes them back when they were kids, jumping into the piles of hair, feeding the animals, or in the summer having a sleepover with your friends in the barn. My father’s favourite story is the kid with shooting the pigeons off the barn and making a pigeon pot pie. It was the great depression, pigeon supplemented the family diet. Remember, when being in France live next-door to a French farmer, he was not pleased when we trashed his barn playing in the hayloft I’ve never seen an animal killed he was slit, a rabbit throat, and then scan it, and then the mother will do the most awesome job with garlic, making the rabbit taste like chicken. The youngest son got to eat the tongue of the rabbit, which was considered a delicacy , the carcass was it made made into soup. Sunday dinner took all afternoon. My father and Mr. Schreiber would tell their war stories and drink wine between each dish. The meal started with garlic salad, then a wonderful pastry filled with mushrooms and lots of butter then the wonderful soup made with eggs, then the main course which is baked potatoes and roast, rabbit and vegetables from their garden, after a couple of hours, my father and Mr. Schreiber would fall asleep and would snore and we would go off and play in the barn