The Stockley Tavern Pickup Truck

April Plein air over two mornings, in Stockley Tavern parking lot, Dupont Hwy Georgetown, De. I used Winston Artisan water mixable with Gamblin solvent free gel mixed as glazing. I used Princeton brushes. Using armature of the rectangle, Indian red wash to line out, pre-sketch with subtractive rub out and Tenebrism to add in darks. I do alla prima first day painting in sky over the wash for a warmth in the clouds, allowing little bits to poke through here and there. Second day I begin to add glaze work transparencies to solidify the truck form. I see this truck every day riding home from teaching high school art classes, and always loved it. No matter how tough my day, the truck makes me smile. Thought one day I will get around to painting it. We both are getting older and showing our age, but there is beauty in aging and imperfection in a world that pushes the new, pushes aside and makes invisible the old. I love rust, and giving honor and homage to landmarks in my community. I look around and many of the old houses, barns, landmarks are gone I knew as a young person. I am still here, and so is this ole pick up. I learned about color as a weaver threading warp and weft that would bury and rise and show analogous changes. I carry my experiences creating pattern and textures into my paintings. From electronic computer knit punch cards used as stencils for stones in the parking lot or sometimes foliage of trees, to plastic cake decorating tools from Dollar tree to lay in barn siding, or straight edges.I build the structure with perspective, and rooflines, board and batton from a lifetime of American art history and architecture interests. What ever gits er done. I liked the bent highway as it moved in perspective through the window of the truck cab. the lines of road dispersing and altering. I'm using this piece to teach a workshop as I have photoed in stages to make it easier for the students to see how it's done. Giving back, sharing knowledge is still important to me. I substitute teach now in retirement in art at my old high school, half a mile away from the truck.. we still have roads to run.