Village Green

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Village Green. Leonard Koscianski, 26″x42″, oil on canvas, 2016.

Village Green is a medium size painting in oils on canvas. Painted from the imagination, it is a horizontal composition where the perspective is exaggerated. The viewer looks down up close and straight out in the distance, where the headlights of cars can be seen on the winding road. The foreground has an early morning light while the background is still in darkness. This suggests a passage of time that parallels the movement into the distance. A woman is running along the road in the foreground, as blue jays fly in from the right. A man looks our his window. The severe simplicity of the houses and the curved space make this a surrealist painting.

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Early Morning Ride

Early Morning Ride. Leonard Koscianski, 42″x26″, oil on canvas, 2014.

It’s early morning in the foreground and becomes night in the background.  It may be hard to see in this photo, but there is a golfer taking a shot, on a fairway in the upper right.