I live rural…you know…in the country…out in the boonies…in the middle of nowhere…and I love it!

I love rural landscapes; farms, rolling fields, century-old stone and log houses, grain elevators, silos and barns ~ big, massive, painted, unpainted, shingled roofed, steel roofed, red, orange, green…all those sensuous colour and texture combinations; ordered chaos.

These are a couple of digital works-in-progress of rural landscapes still waiting to become paper cuttings:

Ramhill, a black-sided red-roofed hip barn sits alone in a low-lying field under massive hydro towers. It had company a few years ago when a log cabin stood nearby. Slowly it (the cabin) was dismantled and trucked away; rumoured to have been reborn on another parcel of land…I wonder what will become of Ramhill.

East of Ramhill this jumble of farm buildings can be seen if you head north on SDRD47 and look east. I was attracted to the green roofline, the white hip barn and the variety of structures on the landscape.

On an outing the other day, I finally took a photo of another jumbled rural landscape of red-roofed barns and assorted outbuildings. This wasn’t the first time for this picturesque, pastoral scene to catch my eye. Indeed I had stopped earlier in the week alongside the road and as I jostled for my phone a car approached and slowed the female driver offering assistance thinking I was lost or in need of help ~ so sweet eh?! I smiled my ‘I’m okay’ and then to my disappointment my aged phone didn’t have enough memory for a photo…argh. Packed my camera this time and hoping to get a drawing down soon.

In the meantime I’m anxious to get these cut out of card stock and sandwiched together. I love how these flat digital images come to life in 2D paper cuttings.