Cul de sac
Posted: September 29, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized 12 CommentsIt’s National Tree Week. I guess that means different things for different people but for me it means get out and paint a tree! This is one I found on a dead end road not too far from here.
I’m still getting to know the roads and landscapes around our new neighbourhood. As soon as you leave this suburb it becomes rural very fast. Horse farms and then corn fields. Lots of them. The long road I followed had some beautiful scenery but no shoulder to stop on. I found this little spot at the end of the road, where I pulled into a driveway next to a house. The bright fall light made some interesting shadows on the upper part of the tree. I painted from the comfy seat of my car studio, on a 10 x 14″ pad of Arches Rough paper.
so pretty
I really love how you simplify the sky and background trees, and also the foliage of the featured tree. So lovely.
Peggy, it’s great to hear from you. Thanks!! Hope you are doing well.
Still on my quest to paint trees but this on has so much different techniques, also the grass, as always, wonderful and really a great example
Love this!!
Thanks so much Wendy!!
The mood, the ruralness, the feeling of age within those world-weary branches is gorgeously conveyed, and pays great tribute to these wonderful, leafy, silently-wise companions we’re blessed to have outlive us.
Love this, especially the moody sky!
So looking forward to starting your new on-line class, my sketchbooks can use some help.
Denise
I like these colours very much. Looking forward to the new online class.
Thanks so much Maureen. I hope you like the new class!!
Captured beautifully. Wondering about the techniques you used with the greenery and shrubs underneath. Looks so playful! And I love the grey sky and corn fields.
Don’t know what makes a painting have special appeal for me but this was does. Just lovely. and there is something lonely about it. I love it. I think I’m getting too sentimental in my very old age.