Jefferson fence #2

This is a photograph of another side of that wonderful yard we found in Jefferson. My thought/plan is to incorporate these images into a painting, but I'm so enjoying manipulating the photos that I may not. (Of course, the images are in my head, so no doubt they'll work their way onto a canvas in some way or another.) When I was in school, drawing classes always required keeping a sketchbook, and showing that book to the teacher, and while that was perfectly fine in anatomy & life drawing, I always had a huge problem doing that with other classes. I tend to work things out in my head - which is weird because you'd think I'd never get stuck on a painting & would finish everything quickly & easily, but I don't. I guess I work out the idea in my head & then let the details figure themselves out , which, yes, does make sense, because that explains the sketchbook problem. Once I began the sketch & then kept going, it would cease being a sketch & become the drawing. Which I then couldn't duplicate. In fact, I had such a problem with it that my very favorite teacher stopped requiring me to keep a sketchbook - he knew that I wasn't slacking, that I just approached a piece in a different way. And, bless his heart, he didn't fight that. He just accepted it, understood it, let me know it was okay, and graded me on the finished work. (All A's, if I do say so myself.)