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This original watercolor painting by David Ralph, titled "Tractors and Sheds", captures the haphazard, rustic, and "nuts & bolts" beauty of a working farm in the mountains of Virginia. Like a scenic landscape, the interplay of light, shadow, shape, line, and color create the eye-pleasing qualities essential for an appealing composition. But instead of a towering mountain view, a winding river, or a field of flowers - this scene contains tractors, sheds, tools, and tire ruts.

David Ralph is a contemporary artist and illustrator currently living in Maryland. David's style of painting and illustration can best be described as geometric abstraction with influences ranging from the cubist paintings of Pablo Picasso to the primitive, cutout shapes of Henri Matisse. Other notable influences for David were Paul Cezanne's fragmented landscapes and the geometrically-divided, flat-color canvases of Piet Mondrian. To David, the simple elegance of the curve, the line, and the circle create the ideal two-dimensional plain of visual interest and appeal. And, to add color intensity, value contrast and balance to this space - along with repetition, texture and pattern - is to create a perfect harmony. It is to this goal that...