Rocky Mount Mill Village School

Each artist has a different comfort zone. Some love painting portraits, others love animals, others love flowers. I love buildings. I've branched out into other subjects this year, but I've been waiting for a good time, when I had nothing pressing on the schedule, to attempt this building, which I saw over a year ago online. It is the old school that was located in the mill village at Rocky Mount Mills. I don't have much information on it other than that it seems to have ceased operating some time in the 1940s. It would have been just a few blocks away from where I grew up. I absolutely love the architecture, and that everyone who sees it thinks it's a church.

I thought about doing it in black and white, as color is not my strength (especially without a color reference), but I was curious to see what it would look like with some blues and greens added. It makes it feel a little more real and a little less abandoned/haunted. I definitely took some artistic liberties with the foreground and background, and I'm not entirely sold on the grass, which I may end up re-doing for the sixth time. Grass is also not my strength. Overall, it was fun.