Birch Tree Forest Painting - Ghost Wood IV

Ghost Wood IV

18x36, acrylic on canvas

This is the fourth birch tree forest painting in my Ghost Wood series.  This one started out in gray scale until I added a little yellow.  I super like pairing it down to a few simple colours.  It gives it such a different feel than the others (see further down in the blog), almost spooky.

Still loving the birch trees!

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Huge Pink Abstract Painting - Pink

Pink

30x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This huge pink abstract painting evolved from an idea, that once I got started, turned a very sharp left.  The pink part was only supposed to be an underpainting, to be seen in bits a pieces, through a layer of dark purple.  But once I got started I just couldn't stop.

What I absolutely love about painting is the subtle colour variations you get by adding just a tiny bit of colour to an already existing colour.  I know we all mixed red and blue in kindergarten or grade one and were astonished to get the colour purple.  (Actually the girl next to me did it and I was perplexed and jealous of her because it didn't seem to work for me.)  But the range of colour that exists, just waiting to happen, by adding a bit of red, or yellow, or white, even blue, really turns my crank.  I'm not sure why.  I just love it, like a songstress hitting a note she loves to sing.

So, needless to say, I became quite mesmerized by all these subtle shades and couldn't and didn't stop until this painting was complete, not purple like I had planned, but PINK.  

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Abstract Birch Tree Painting - Ghost Wood III

Ghost Wood III

18x36 inches, acrylic on canvas

This is the third in a series of abstract birch tree paintings.  Each time I embark on a new version, I choose a different colour palette.  This time I chose earthy shades of browns and green with a bit of gray and yellow thrown into the mix.  What I didn't expect, were the trees to also be in earthtones.  In the previous two versions, as well as a commission, they had all been white.  They are representing birch trees after all.

But as I worked on the forest, I noticed some strokes looking more like main trees.  So I played with this idea, and whole forest of slightly off-white (sometimes really off-white) trees came to be.  Painted wet on wet these trees mingled generously with the underpainting to create quite a unique expanse of forest.

I love it when this happens!

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Large Blue and White Abstract Painting - Convergence in Blue and White

Convergence in Blue and White

30x30, acrylic on canvas

This painting has a whole lotta texture!  

I wanted to work in blue and white with this abstract and imagined adding in other colours along the way.  The background is actually a beautiful green/gold, seen in bits and pieces between circles and at edges.  But once I got started, I couldn't see any other colour coming into the mix.  

With this amount of movement and texture, two colours is all it seemed to need.

In a 30x30 inch size, it makes quite an impact. 

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