Oil Painting – “San Luis Obispo Barn on Miossi Ranch”

The beautiful San Luis Obispo countryside in summer.

Harvey Cohon and I painted this barn twice—once in winter and once in summer.  Normally I am not interested in painting the same scene twice, but the color scheme was so different on these two occasions, because one painting session took place in summer and the other was in winter, so that I was okay with giving the scene a second look.  In this—the first–version, I left out the distant mountains, because they appeared to have the same value as the trees, which I thought would have made the background less well-defined.