FOR SALE:
“Quail Roost Farm”
Pencil, pastel, and Watercolor 2023
$250 (please email dterrydraw@aol.com or private message if interested in purchase)
I’ve been told (for years) not to say anything disparaging about a picture just because I’m not satisfied with it. In this case, I AM satisfied with the picture…just not with the scan. I know what the problem is; my mid-range scanner simply doesn’t pick up on subtle pastels (the sky in this picture) and, simultaneously, oil pencils. Apparently, they reflect light differently. SO, I had to choose between the land and the sky in this scan. The sky, obviously, lost. It remains that I don’t want to spend the money on an $800 scanner that’s the size of my car.
And isn’t that a patently OLD PERSON’S complaint?….I can, however grudgingly, afford the cost……but i resent the fuck out of the thing’s taking so much space just as I’m trying to downsize.
All technical quandries aside?….These are the main barns out on Quail Roost. The old cottage is to the far-left…behind the vet’s office bldg. And, yes….500 acres and 100 or so highstrung horses, while me and my two terriers lived in the tiny barn-manager’s cottage that sits behind the lowslung vet’s office at the far-left./ This was the third time in my life when I’ve lived in a charming (but small) outbuilding on a big farm……and was pretty sure that I was the first white person to have ever done so over the past 100 years.