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I had a friend visit a few day ago we worked together in the woodlands some twenty years ago, he was a qualified forester and taught me an awful lot about the woodland. As he was a keen photographer he alway had a camera with him and would take photos of the work we were doing or just for historic interest, he brought a few with him and I remembered one as it was the burst big tree I took down. It was a beautiful old beech in a clearing with a couple of its offspring growing and dying as well . I had shed a fe branch and there was concern about the safety of visitors, one complaint was receiving saying a branch had snapped of and a child was slightly hurt . The boss decided it needed to come out , sad really as it was dying gracefully and provided a home for wildlife. Long story short out it came and of to be burned, turns out the child that was hurt fell when the branch he stood on snapped off as he was climbing. Gerry had taken a few photos and I decided to do a painting based on one of them .
This is the opening stages of the painting mostly base colours, gels strange painting something I removed from the landscape .
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Thank you Sandra and George . I haven’t had time to paint due to the Easter weekend and following up with visits to relatives etc , I did get a good half hour earlier today and mad3 quite good progress I think. I’m trying to show the dying tree in all its glory as it slowly decays away, I have always been fascinated at the how the wood changes colour and texture as it start to rot . The shapes and colours of the holes etc that appears are amazing , the large duos that have developed on the try due to infestation by gall wasps etc are incredible to see as the change colours and rot out . These grows are hated by foresters as the make a tree un sellable, loved by woodturners as the make superb bowls etc .
This is what I’ve achieved so far .
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Done quite a bit more today, working on the main tree in the centre, one thing that needs careful planning is not letting the moss on the tree get lost against the background foliage. As the old tree is dead and decaying there won’t be any foliage on the actual tree , I will have the moss a lighter green than the background leaves are . I do love the shapes and colours that develop as the tree rots away , some have huge fungi growing on them as the mycelium that’s helped to sustain it through life starts to fruit and die off itself.
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Very interesting to see how you go about making your very successful paintings Paul, We all have different ways of going about things and that is what makes our paintings different from each others. I love trying to work out how paintings I see have been made. (how did he/she do that ?) For instance to me, Alan's lovely construction lines are as attractive as any other part of his paintings and sketches. I think that we are all influenced by other painters works, both past and present and this is as it should be. We take what we learn and use it or adapt it in our own work. It's always been so and probably always will be so. So keep posting your paintings in progress Paul, they help a lot of people.
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Many thank Sandra , George and Alan , I enjoyed doing WIP as it keeps me focused and motivated if someone gains anything from following the process then that is most rewarding and worth the time posting the stages .
I think I’ve done enough, I deliberately made it quite detailed and am now at risk of overworking the painting, my bad had it is to fiddle, difficult to resist just one more branch, leaf, or line etc . Will leave it a short while them post it later on the gallery.
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