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Buck Moon, July 5, 2021
The Rule: Take a photo at one of two locations, any direction. Reduce pixels by 97% and make painting.
Set of twenty four 12x9” watercolor paintings
I choose two locations to stand for taking these photographs. The first is at the opening in the stone wall on Oenoke Ridge road, near the North Meadow. The second location was 500 steps away, in the broad path next to the wet meadow. Both locations, indicated on the map at the beginning of the exhibit, offered some of the most iconic-at least to me-views. I hoped that reducing the pixels would help me to loosen up my painting, but I’m not sure it made as much difference as I had hoped. The Buck Moon of 2020 was 28 days of gorgeous clear air and blue skies, where I was largely focusing on vistas instead of close ups.
The Buck Moon is so called because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time. According to The Old Farmers Almanac, other names for this moon include Feather Molting Moon (Cree), Berry Moon (Anishinaabe), Raspberry Moon (Ojibwe) and Thunder Moon (Western Abenaki).
The Rule: Take a photo at one of two locations, any direction. Reduce pixels by 97% and make painting.
Set of twenty four 12x9” watercolor paintings
I choose two locations to stand for taking these photographs. The first is at the opening in the stone wall on Oenoke Ridge road, near the North Meadow. The second location was 500 steps away, in the broad path next to the wet meadow. Both locations, indicated on the map at the beginning of the exhibit, offered some of the most iconic-at least to me-views. I hoped that reducing the pixels would help me to loosen up my painting, but I’m not sure it made as much difference as I had hoped. The Buck Moon of 2020 was 28 days of gorgeous clear air and blue skies, where I was largely focusing on vistas instead of close ups.
The Buck Moon is so called because the antlers of male deer (bucks) are in full-growth mode at this time. According to The Old Farmers Almanac, other names for this moon include Feather Molting Moon (Cree), Berry Moon (Anishinaabe), Raspberry Moon (Ojibwe) and Thunder Moon (Western Abenaki).
