The scene is an old abandoned farmhouse in Easton, Maryland. The house is rotting away quickly, I poked around upstairs and the ceiling was caving in from water damage. This is the largest painting I have ever done outside, 18" x 24". I typically do paintings half this size, so this was a new experience for me. I had to paint very fast and loose to get it covered in the few hours that the morning light was available. You can see that it barely fits on my easel. The photo shows how far the sun had changed since I began to paint it earlier in the morning. Just as soon as I finished the last stroke, my relatives showed up from Long Island, New York. I hadn't seen them in many years and we had a nice picnic lunch right on the front lawn of this eerie old spot.
