- 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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