I came back from a recent trip to far West Texas with more than a few images of things that need to be turned into paintings. Here's the first one. It isn't complete, but it's at the point where I've quit adding paint to the 16 x 20 canvas and am going to hang it on the wall to see what needs to be changed or added. The scene was between Marfa and Fort Davis about four or five days ago.
Naturally, if this were some state other than Texas, a wrap of surveyor's ribbon on the pipe post at the angle in the fence would be needed, I'd suppose. :>
Kent, you obviously did not use a theodolite to paint in your straight line of posts stakes....
RADU
I like it!
What Age Is That Wire ?
And the posts look too evenly cut.
BTW, other than the steel angle post, where in Texas do you find so much wood?
Good color.
Paul in PA
> Naturally, if this were some state other than Texas, a wrap of surveyor's ribbon on the pipe post at the angle in the fence would be needed, I'd suppose. :>
And don't forget a lot of orange paint on the post as well....
Nice picture. I wish I could paint like that.
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> Naturally, if this were some state other than Texas, a wrap of surveyor's ribbon on the pipe post at the angle in the fence would be needed, I'd suppose. :>
You need a rock mound about a vara away from the pipe post.:-|
That brace is nice; they really want to keep the fences off the lines in Texas eh?;-)
> That brace is nice; they really want to keep the fences off the lines in Texas eh?
The technical question, of course, would be whether a good fenceline surveyor would run the boundary along the brace and back to the fence. :>
It's technologically impossible to build a fence along a boundary in Texas. Until the fence is invented that is less than a punch mark wide and auto relocates to the newest and most accurate punch mark on the survey cap via the latest resurvey, a surveyor can just ignore any fence as any sort evidence of the boundary. I don't know what they do when there isn't a brass cap to go by at every corner. It's weird but where I work there are few to none brass markers to go by and fences work perfectly fine to make good neighbors. Why would any landowner erect a fence along their boundary when a couple of punch marks thousands of feet apart keep the neighbors off your land.
Looks like the fence follows one of those curved section lines.
nice painting !!!, very close (by the meaning to me) to the previous one..., I would say the unspoken part of the painting is finished .
it is quite a distance from Austin, looks like close to a day-long travel.
> it is quite a distance from Austin, looks like close to a day-long travel.
It's about 400 miles West of Austin, but the speed limit is 80mph (130km/hr) on the highway for most of the route.
Surveyor's Dilemma – Art
You should do three more paintings to expand this theme.
(1) Another copy of the angle point but with the pink ribbon attached to the post.
(2) A painting of a standard TDOT brass tablet, and
(30 Another copy of the TDOT tablet with an extra punch mark.
Then you could display the collection in an art gallery titled, Surveyor's Dilemma.
Sure would be interesting whether only surveyors got it or if the general public got it also.
Surveyor's Dilemma – Art
> Then you could display the collection in an art gallery titled, Surveyor's Dilemma.
I'll leave the Utah scenes for someone else to paint. :>
Yes, that's probably a corner rather than merely an angle point!
