- In this Landscape Painting, "Autumn
Light," an original oil on panel, I was interested in painting
a grand Red Oak beside a little inlet of translucent water. I
like to tell myself that tree painting is a genre' when the landscape
is basically a background for a tree like this one. For the up
close viewer there is underwater life such as a large mouth bass
chasing a smaller fish around the half floating tree limb and
a frog under water that has left ripples from having just jumped
in. It is from imagination and leans towards being a fantasy.
I completed this painting in one five day session in order to
complete the work by painting wet paint into wet paint which
I feel is the best Technique
for the purpose of fine blending and surface control. The surface
of this painting is as smooth as glass and was achieved without
any layers.
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