I said I had painted a lot of dead trees! We’re not even finished yet… This was a piece painted over a few days, both very stormy and threatening rain. I did the watercolour and it got dark, came back a few days later as I felt it was incomplete and sod’s law, someone had re-arranged all the branches in a new order, so I had to extrapolate from what whas in front of me and memory…
Even though I felt it was unfinished, part of me feels the first watercolour was fine and I should have left it! It’s a hard call, it felt rather naked without more detail yet I feel I sort of overworked it, but actually when I fix it a lot of the detail and contracts will lessen – that’s why I work so boldly, so something survives when I fix it – even the best fixative will dampen down the contrast and colour intensity somewhat.
Also this is very Romantic or gothic, Caspar David Friedrich and all that. I have painted work like this before, when I was a student of a stone circle. It’s an interesting work, but it’s not something I want to make a habit of!
But I wonder what is that scary looking tree in the distance?
It was that tree I saw which made me come over and I found this.
Let’s go take a look…
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