And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Totally agree, very well done, exceptional even, so close to what a good photographer could pick up, if the houses did not have the artist's characterization be difficult to tell it was a photo.
Wonderful use of colour, the lighting contrasts are perfect.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree, very well done, exceptional even, so close to what a good photographer could pick up, if the houses did not have the artist's characterization be difficult to tell it was a photo.
DeleteA full moon will be opposite the sun in the sky. So astronomically, that’s wrong. Nice painting though.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Belt of Venus which is opposite the sun at dawn and dusk. I used to see it often in winter driving westward to get to work.
DeleteAl_in_Ottawa
Must be in Ottawa where the Canucks have everything ass backwards.
DeleteCriticisms of the artist on the accuracy of what he painted aside, I think that's a great painting! It's pleasing to the eye...
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