Working with the difference between seeing and depicting. This painting uses a sketch of field & snow patterns seen from a jet flying west over Kansas, probably. Maybe eastern Colorado. The sketches below are of land seen from above nearly straight down; the painting translates it, or distorts it, into a one-point perspective view and adds other blocks to fill the canvas. The ground was a beautiful silvery grey, some places deep and dark, others pale, ghostly. The sketch depicted in the painting is to the left of the clip.
Here's another painting combining a random grid pattern with another field & snow pattern. Again the softly lit colors, faded by atmospheric conditions, are difficult to re-imagine while painting.
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