"The White House at Stinking Creek"
Charcoal - 18" x 24"
May 2006
A gift to the lady of the house, a friend's friend.

(click on the image for a larger view)
On a wonderful afternoon in a Kentucky Spring I sat on my drawing horse and soaked in the atmosphere of the Diamond B.  There's something unsurpassed in the sound of a horse nickering off in the field.

I rather didn't expect to find a piece of Palladian architecture with such symmetry anywhere in the southeastern Kentucky hill country.  I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect example.  Awesome.

I'm hoping to get to work up a composition in oil of it.  Time will tell its tale.

It's a truly remarkable Kentucky horse farm of the white four-board fence variety. This house should float in a painting and not seem to touch the ground.  The difficulty will be in incorporating so much pasture and the extraordinary barn that houses a World Champion quarter horse (barrel racing).

I think I got enough photos to get a feel for the atmosphere here.  
I may have to get something better of the barn area.

I had a mental problem that day.  You see, nearly a hundred years ago my dad once lived on Stinking Creek in Knox County, Kentucky.  I had never been on Stinking Creek before and was lost in some thought process unrelated to art at all and I missed the emphasis being placed upon the barn.