Local Barn - Pen and Ink - Watercolor - Painter 8

More pen and ink and watercolor in Painter 8 for today's image. This is another photograph taken by my son Keir M. Gatzka. I like the current motif of decaying buildings and this fits that category well.

I followed much the same techniques as in the last couple of entries. Using Paint.NET for the pen and ink filter. This time color tuned all the way up and the ink pattern tuned up slightly.

Taking this image into Painter 8 I selected the runny bleach brush and used varying sizes for the watercolors.

These old buildings at one time had a usefulness that was needed and it is a shame that many of them are no longer used. It shows a move from a more agricultural based economy to the current information era economy, with factory work in between.

It is odd that as they stand now they have a charm to them a nostalgic charm that appeals to the eye. Put out to pasture as it were they hold interest and your attention. One can imagine them bustling with workers and hay and animals. Times long gone now.

Decaying barns imply
Times not so long ago
Workers at their tasks
Then resting in the snow

Now no one goes there
Only cameras capture
Moments of contentment
Simple lovely rapture

Paint and painting gone
The planks falling apart
Shadows build an air
Of a majesty of art

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