The Turning Tree - Large Acrylic Painting

"Turning Tree"

30" x 36"

Acrylic

I finally finished a new one. This is a large acrylic, 30" x 36". I have been doing some "fine-tuning" on it for several days - I just was not quite satisfied with the leaf colors. I think I finally achieved what I set out to do, though. My goal was to show a tree that had begun to change colors, and had different stages of leaf maturity (i.e. different colors) ranging from greenish yellow to a dark rust color. I think that I am okay with it now that I have simplified the background a bit. (It was really "busy" before).

I am working on two other paintings at the moment, and just happened to finish this one first. The other paintings include a very large canvas featuring 5 running horses, and a smaller canvas with a close-up of a single horse. I intend the larger painting to be a very loose, almost abstract, colorful canvas with lots of my favorite color: red!!!

Please check in again soon. Toodles!

I am back after a sort of "hiatus". Actually, I spent over a week working on a single painting - a landscape - that I still need to tweak just a bit. It is a huge canvas - somewhere in the neighborhood of 3' x 5.5'. Also, I had to set up a new, larger easel. This was a hassle since no instructions were included in the box. Geez, I would have settled for Spanish instructions...or even Japanese... if they had only included pictures. But, I think that the three of us (me, Mom, and Lucy the Boxer), ultimately got it assembled. The good news is that we only had 3 extra parts left over, not counting the 2 extra screws.

I am not ready to post the "big picture" yet, but for the last several days I have been working on a 24" x 30" canvas of 2 very colorful horses. This photo is not primo - I think the actual paint colors are much sharper. Still, you get the overall basic design. I think that this is one of my favorite paintings because of the freedom of choice I used in selecting color and style. The result is more expressionist than the usual impressionistic approach that I generally take in painting. I hope you like it.

"Horses Nuzzling"

Acrylic

24" x 30"