Blue Ridge Breakdown            Watercolor

 

Years ago, this painting won the North Carolina Watercolor Society. The scene is near Patrick County, Virginia. I was looking around this ramshackle cabin when about a dozen hound dogs and a fairly inebriated man came out and approached me. I asked the man if he would mind if I painted his cabin. He replied, "My cabin don't need paintin'!"

 
The wagon was not there. I added it to lead the eye into the composition.