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            This painting in my Small Treasures collection began as a study in how to show distance in a landscape painting with multiple hills. However, by the end of my painting process, it had become a story about the beautiful barn in the foreground. The background, in how it progressively gets softer edged and bluer in color, becomes a contrast to the sharper edges of the barn and trees. The use of complementary colors (green and red) along with the armature of the painting where the barn is nearly centered, provides [...]