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October Maple

© Robin Edmundson, 'October Maple', watercolor, 18 x 24 inches.  

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend!  I'm doing my best to eat as much pie as possible.

There's always that one maple in the neighborhood that puts on a show every year.  I love that red that shows up on the south side.   I'm always grateful for how beautiful things are in the fall here.  I've been painting a few of these October scenes to help keep that wonderful color here as long as I can before I switch to the winter palette.

The birds are moving through these days.   Flocks of cranes overhead, flocks of cedar waxwings, starlings, crows and others filling up the trees and gleaning in the fields.   It's an active time of year before things get really cold and quiet.

I think I'm going to start another of these colorful ones today.

October Oaks

© Robin Edmundson, 'October Oaks', watercolor.

October is my favorite month!   So much color, so many shapes, such fabulous light.

Our oak trees put on quite a show here and they use aaaallll the colors.   How can I not be inspired?

We're likely going to get our first frost tonight.  Today I'll bring the bay tree and rosemary pots inside. I took down the hummingbird feeders yesterday. It's time to stock up on birdseed and suet for the winter. It won't be long until we hear the sandhills flying south for the season. 

I have a goal this winter to get over to the Goose Pond observation building and do some painting of the birds.  Sounds like fun, right?

October Ramblings

I don't have anything important to share with you today, but I wanted you to know I was thinking about you and that I really appreciate that you spend a bit of your precious time with me. I thought I'd share a photo of October here in Indiana.  I hope it brings a little calm in your day.

This is our road right at the property line. [We have 40 acres]   Our house is around the curve and down a little hill.  I love this view.  In every season, at every time of day, it feels like there are all sorts of wonderful possibilities just around the corner.    And there are!

It's turned chilly here.   Eric got up early to light the first fire of the season in our wood stove and soon after our little hollow filled up with a soft fog where the smoke gathered.  I love the smell of wood smoke on chilly mornings. 

October is my favorite month - I think because it's so joyful in the transition from summer exuberance to winter hibernation.  Plus, the trees match the yellow stripes in the road and who doesn't love that?   

Lily and I saw the blue-est sky we had ever seen here the other day.   Deep dark cobalt blue.   I hope you get to see a sky like that sometime soon.   It was magnificent. 

That's all, my beautiful friends!   I'm sending you a little extra peace today. I'd love to know how you use it.

Double Mist

© Robin Edmundson, 'Double Mist, October',  20 x 24 inches framed.  

This is a piece I did a few months ago.  Once in a while we get a double layer of mist over the fields. It's magical on a bright fall morning.


I'm having prints made and they will be available at the show.  And soon, in the shop section on my art site.

This One Needs a Title

© Robin Edmundson, 'October, cows in hayfield',  18 x 22 inches framed.

Once in a while, I fall in love with a piece while I'm working on it. I fell in love with this one. Something about the clouds and the trees.  It's not done yet.  I need to darken the bottoms of the trees and shadows and add more depth to the clouds, but it's almost there.

Right now I'm calling it, 'October, cows in hayfield'.  Wolf Khan is nodding in agreement, but I'm thinking it deserves a better name.

I'm taking suggestions.   Leave them in the comments.



[Come see it in person at the show.]

Anderson's Bales, Bright October Morning

© 2016 Robin Edmundson, 
Anderson's Bales, Bright October Morning
watercolor, 12 x 16 inches

The colors in October are really something here - even in a bad year.   This year on my way to Clay City early one morning a few weeks ago, I rounded a bend to see my favorite hayfield all dewy and with a bright mist over the back end - and the mist was one of those double layer ones.   So pretty!

I'm totally digging purple shadows these days.   Must do more with this palette.  I like how bright and fresh this is.

Colors:  dioxazene violet, Mission burnt sienna, viridian, permanent alizarin crimson, burnt umber, new gamboge.

I Hate to See October Go

© 2016 Robin Edmundson, I Hate to See October Go, watercolor, 9 x 12 inches

100 years ago, in 1984, Barry Manilow sang a song with that line as the chorus.  That line has been stuck in my head all these years.  Every fall I think of it as Warm Fall moves into Cold Fall.   I have been deep in that season as I painted this piece.  I tried to fill it full of that late fall glow, after the leaves are down but the grass is still green.  Before the snow flies here.

The painting is about 9x12.  140 lb cp paper - Arches.

This one is for sale SOLD.   $150. Signed front and back.   Framed with a white mat, conservation quality [That's the good kind]. Simple black frame, like the one I used for the painting in the museum.  Framed size: 16x20.   Email me if you're interested: robin at morenna dot com.

Fall Fashion

What the fashionable woodland is wearing this October.

The 'jealous trees in autumn’s chilly nights '
do indeed 'transform their own limbs into fiery brights.'

October Fields

We got this pic a couple of weeks ago, just as the trees were thinking about turning.  I love the gold bean fields next to the moody sky. 

October Color

October doesn't get much prettier than this winged sumac.




[It's prettier when you blow it up.  Click to biggify.]

Some of the Prettiest Color in the Woods

...comes from the wild vines.  

I think this is an air potato vine.  [If you can identify it more accurately, let me know in the comments]

Poison Ivy.    It's gorgeous in October.

More poison ivy.  Do not be tempted to pick this stuff.   It's nasty all year long. 

Virginia creeper.    It's glorious this time of year.