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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I generally paint or sketch whatever comes to mind , boats , tree, landscape, old buildings to name a few but just recently I’ve found that I’m preferring to do landscape including woodlands scenes. I’ve always felt quite passionate about woodlands having spent many hours working in them so I suppose it quite natural that trees feature a lot in my landscape work. In the last month I’ve been wanting to do more and more landscape work, it’s almost become an obsession, looking at photos, old masters like Peder Monsted , my favourite artist. I was looking back at the photos of paintings that I have done and the tree paintings stand out more for me than any other subject, decided to bite the bullet as they say and get on with some rather than avoiding them at the cost of doing nothing. Motivation or obsession not sure but it’s certainly encouraging me to get some paint on paper, I wonder how many of you have had a similar experience , did you indulge it or avoid it . A couple of recent painting a done I started this morning, spent more time working on this than I have done any other painting for a few weeks  This is the base sketch and a little colour to get started with. Moving on quickly. This is where I’m at now , trying to keep the right side of the scene lighter as that’s where the sun is coming from. Will probably have to darken the left a little bit more before it complete.

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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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I have scratched my itch a bit more and almost completed this s end , just a bit of foreground details and then I will stop , or I will be tempted to add more unnecessary detail. 
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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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Finished , will put it on the gallery a bit later 
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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I have a lot of sympathy for you in this - I too  like painting trees; I've made conscious efforts in  the past to avoid painting  them, but they nearly always creep back in; I painted an acrylic of a local chine (sea-eroded valley on the Isle of Wight) a week or so ago, though - and nary a tree to be seen - largely because there aren't any in its immediate vicinity.  I do like it - insofar as I ever like anything I do - but I know I'm going back to trees.    Perhaps we avoid them because we know (or hope...) we can paint them, and so feel we're not challenging ourselves; but if  painting is largely about  doing what  we enjoy ... and we enjoy painting trees ... well then, why not?  I do think it's important to tackle things we find more difficult, though; hence the odd portrait for me, usually when  asked for one, admittedly, and boats, ships, harbours for you.  I would get bored if I always painted trees -  I wonder if you or others sometimes feel that there are so many things  we could paint, so many possible sketches to  work up, that it's hard to make a choice; and so we revert to our old favourites?