I love ALL of Texas...but the Fredricksburg area in the Hill Country is one of my favorite places to paint and last week, I spent 3 glorious days there working on location (en plein air). My cousin Connie Bernhard and her husband Dennis have a 500 acre ranch just west of Harper (22 miles west of Fredricksburg) and they provided "room and board" during my stay. (am I lucky or what?) Their ranch is beautiful with rolling hills, a creek, sheep, cattle, and 2 llamas; "Tony" llama, and "Dolly" llama. Dennis' old home place is on the creek and I want to do several paintings of that location with the original outbuildings later on this year. The painting of the red barn is a "shearing barn" on their ranch. The next one is a scene on the banks of the Little Devil River, north of their property about 8 miles.
The next is of a building on a historic site just east of Fredricksburg. I liked the wagon under the overhang with distant hills. The next painting is out on Grapetown Road. I have no clue exactly where it is; The small rock structure out in the middle of a pasture with distant hills in the background made a nice composition. I'm planning on making another trip in the Fall when there's a lot of color all over the area. My cousin's home is on a hill overlooking a beautiful valley; I have the perfect spot already picked out!
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