My Art Work
Dirt Road Near Rock Castle Gorge
Pastel on paper 17″x23″ Original – $782.00
Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com
I have so many paintings from Rock Castle Gorge that I think I will be blogging about this gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway attraction for a while. Hikers especially love the trails at this site and my husband has actually walked as much as eight miles off the trail up and down the mountain to get photographs of butterflies.
His photographer, Bruce Grimes, has to carry heavy equipment to get good photographs and he often has to lie down on his stomach to get the shot. I have always admired photographers! Good photography is quite an art and a job!
Road to Rocky Knob oil on canvas 8″x10″
Original painting has been sold
Prints on paper or canvas available at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com
The actual trail is a loop that is just short of 11 miles long.
I am especially fond of this oil painting of a road that leads to Rocky Knob. It is quite an expressive work!
There are so many interesting trails around this area and the wildflowers in season are stunning!
When I was in school I had a teacher that was fond of country and mountain scenes and he remarked to me one time that He especially liked the kind of yellow/white grass seen along the dirt road in the painting at the top.
Most artists have a main medium and a secondary medium. My main medium is oil paint but my secondary medium is pastels.
I am especially proud of my American Artist Award for “Near Smithfield Plantation”from famed pastelist Daniel Greene.
Life with the Bird and Word Man
- People often don’t like their photograph and with good reason! The lens is curved and the resulting parallax can make for a picture that looks how a person looks in a curved piece of metal. No one wants that!
- I pride myself that I can work around the parallax but I have been having a hard time lately with my digital camera. I think the old 35mm cameras had less perspective distortion.
Anyway, I finally got a decent picture of my husband for the publication The Writing Disorder which will feature his poems this Spring. The tenebristic light made all the difference!
Clyde Kessler
Kendall Kessler Art 