Unfortunately this w/c has no date to tell when it was done. It was this summer though when the grasses had begun to mature. I had taken the bicycle on one of my favorite rides out to E1700 road where this fence is characteristic of the landscape. Did a sketch directly on the Canson w/c paper and then later at home did this painting over the sketch. Cannot say I was too happy with it to start, but after it sat a couple months I began to like it better. I have often watched a hawk work its way along this tree line in the distance headed east -to the right of the picture. According to the address on the utility easement south of here the name is Kitzmiller Rd, though none of the signs indicate that. But I would suppose the Kitzmiller's, north or south had something to do with the use of all the woven wire fence, which has been here longer than I by far. They could also explain the occasional use of an old streel framed bed spring in a fence here and there. We are talking 60 year old or more springs -before the advent of the new wood framed "box spring". This was done on 9" x 12" Canson 140 # paper. It reproduced here way darker than it actually is for some reason...
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