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Dayton, WA
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Title
Columbia County Backroads
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
We call them backroads.
They are not freeways, nor even highways, although they, like their urban cousins, are designed to take people to a destination.
But the difference lies in the destination, as well as in how fast they get a person there.
In the case of backroads, the journey to the destination is not a breathtakingly speedy one, one in which we drum our fingers on the steering wheel in our impatience to arrive, catapult out of the car, and rush off to do whatever is on our (long, long) list that day.
The journey, like the road itself, wends and winds its way through the landscape, and because this is not a car commercial, does not lend itself to racing car speeds. The road itself demands that we slow down, because it is frequently covered with gravel or, when it’s way off in the back country, consists of dirt rutted with potholes.
Sometimes, we’re convinced we could WALK faster. And sometimes, we’re right.
But when we find ourselves on backroads, we know (or should know, and will shortly know) that the destination is not the complete story. It is the landscape surrounding us, the landscape that emerges with each turn and bend of the road, that attracts our attention.
Focused on our driving – because we don’t want to run off the road into a ditch, especially way off in the back country where there’s no cell service – we are still also able to take in the surroundings, and sometimes we are surprised when we take a turn and discover a house or farm. “Someone LIVES out here?” we wonder. “It must be very, very quiet.”
Indeed it is, and that is something in which the backroads excel: they lead us to places of quiet, places where we can stop, emerge slowly from the car, stretch, and take a 360-degree look around.
“It’s so quiet out here,” we say to ourselves, “I can, for once, hear myself think.”
(Columbia County Backroads is located in Eastern Washington of the U.S., just outside a very small, quaint town called Dayton. But it could be anyplace that is remote, and beautiful, and quiet, and just waiting for us to discover its existence.)
Featured in 29 Fine Art America groups.
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February 20th, 2019
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Viewed 10,669 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/19/2024 at 2:50 PM
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Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular composition, lighting, shading, colors and artwork! F/L …voted for this one in the COUNTRY ROADS contest!
Eugene, OR - United States
I recognized the location of your beautiful painting immediately. My husband and both his parents were born in Dayton, WA.
Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 views Groups nominated images by your fellow artist in the Special Features #13 promotion discussion. Please visit and pass on the love to another artist.....L/F/Tw
Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group l/f/p
Dayton, WA - United States
To the recent buyer from South Carolina: Thank you. And may the artwork "Columbia County Backroads" instill a sense of anticipation and joy as experienced in a Sunday drive through the countryside. Enjoy!
Southampton, PA - United States
Congratulations on the feature of your wonderful painting in the OBSESSED Painters Painting group! L/F
Paintersville, UT - United States
Congratulations Steve on your feature in the group OBSESSED Painters Paintings
Independence, KS - United States
CONGRATULATIONS! It is my great pleasure to FEATURE your remarkable artwork on the homepage of the Artist Group No Place Like Home, 7/18/2019! You are invited to post it in the Group's Features Discussion thread for posterity or any other thread that fits!
Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured in the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group 3/4/19 l/f/pin
JABALPUR, MA - India
Glorious nature show in this painting very interesting effect of subject + L F Tw
Saint Louis, MO - United States
Your watercolors are very special! F/L
Steve Henderson replied:
Thank you, Nancy, for the comment. Although the majority of my work is rendered in oil, I find watercolors with its transparency, fluidity, immediacy to be very relaxing and expanding.
Burlington, NJ - United States
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured in the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 2/25/19
Titusville, FL - United States
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Simpsonville, SC - United States
I'm following you great work Congrats.
Steve Henderson replied:
I am very gratified that you are following these works, Gary. May they brighten your day.
NIcholasville, KY - United States
Congratulations, your work is featured on the homepage of "Created by My Hands"
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