Couple of larger images I am continuing to work on. (Patience is a virtue, that is a difficult lesson all on it's own!) Working on trying to capture realistic colors and light-patterns. My landscape painting class is not going as well as hoped. They are dogmatic slaves that copy photos and really don't create interesting images. However, I am learning what I don't want to do. I am learning a lot about the things I can do to make sure my works don't fall in this category. I use a lot more white and black and try to push the extremes of the color scale to create a lot of drama and tension in my work. So I guess it's not a total loss...
These clouds have been very difficult and I have had to redo them a LOT! Many layers, many wipe-downs and do-overs. I can say I am not totally displeased with this latest incarnation and I did some things technically I have never done before...
This stump one has been totally redone. I was trying to do a lot when I realized the stump was the star of the painting. I put it in the middle and gave it the detail I was trying to spread around. It feels alive now and I like that. (Just for fun I put a Sasquatch back in the trees.)
This last one I have worked on for a long time it seems. Continually changing things and tweaking colors. Tried to anthropomorphize the tree but not sure if it worked. It may not be done, and I may just wait to get comments from the next residency.
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