Thursday, 6 December 2012

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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