My Attraction to Crumbling Old Log Buildings
“Black Rapids Lodge” original acrylic painting by Gail Niebrugge, sold.
I have no idea why I love old broken down log buildings. But I do, I really, really do. Tipping and leaning, adorned with the proverbial set of antlers, roofs patched and sagging, these crumbling structures speak to me. They call me. To do justice to the many, many additions and phases of the Black Rapids Lodge on the Richardson Highway north of Paxson, I need a long vertical canvas. Their are many more additions, but they were built using sort of a nonstandard 2×4 construction and not as interesting to me as the early phases built with logs. So, for this painting I chose a vertical format and focused attention on the oldest part of the complex. Don’t you just love it?
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, paintings of historic sites
