Thursday 12 July 2012

A little secret…

For the most part, I want to avoid technique based posts, however, I thought this one was far too interesting to pass up. I seems counter-intuative, but I do not paint a tree, or trees… I actually paint the sky. In fact, my favoured methodology is to make the sky one of the last elements to be rendered. In both these examples below, a large, basic, block of dark colour was painted first, and the sky simply ate away at the tree form, similar to how a relief-print artist would cut-away at the plate/block material. Why not give it a try. 'Let one brush stroke inspire another'.

Early snow

Into the forest

9 comments:

  1. Interesting technique. My technique for trees was the Banana shapes that built up from light yellow tones to dark green. The sky is an important factor when painting trees to suggest foliage and space. Will give this method a try.

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    1. Thanks Gina. Yep, there's loads of techniques for painting trees. I'm thinking of Ross' 'happy trees' now!

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  2. Interesting post Paul, thank you, I might give this a try too :)

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  3. I like both these paintings. Thanks for sharing

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  4. Interesting Paul. Both paintings are beautiful, love the colours!

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    1. really interesting. thanks for sharing. i personally really LIKE it when you talk technique, it's useful

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