Plowing a Rice Paddy
On our way to an old mountain village in Sichuan Province in China this summer we saw peasant farmers working in the rice fields. Once again I became aware of the traditional way of working that Chinese farmers use, going back thousands of years. This clearly can be seen in the use of water buffalo to plow the rice paddies. Modern equipment is not designed to work in rice fields under water. This study is one of those views seen last summer. I was unable to continue these sketches last summer because I fell and fractured my painting arm in three places while in the old village we were visiting. Now that I’m back in shape, I’m trying to catch up and finish some of those studies. Later, I want to do some studies of a bullfight we saw in a Dong minority village to show the how highly prized the buffalo is and to explain how the bullfight takes place. Often, on rural roads, drivers must slow down and drive very carefully to negotiate around water buffalo or other animals walking or even lying in the road.
Plowing a Rice Paddy 5″ x 7″ acrylic on gesso primed board unframed
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