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A Maple in the Fall or a Fall from Grace?
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I don't know whether this was worth doing or not. It's from an old book about the beauty of Canada and I used it to practice painting leaves and cure myself of my aversion to the colour red. Maybe I went overboard. It's more of a study than a proper painting really. It's in acrylic and charcoal on canvas board.
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It was very much worth doing - you've reflected the beauty of the Canadian/USA "fall" - though the leaves haven't yet fallen - and I wonder, did it correct your aversion from/to red? I like a bit of red in a painting, so I have no aversion to overcome.Thanks. I think it did cure my aversion - I hope so, anyway. I had looked at my little dining room art gallery a while ago and realised there was almost no red anywhere. So I'm consciously pushing against my unconscious bias. I love all colours really, but I have a definite preference for the blue end of the spectrum. It can make my paintings look cold though. I think my next challenge is brown, another colour I avoid, maybe in response to my teenage attempts at oil painting, which generally looked like a miserable, muddy, miasma on the canvas. I loved the smell of oils though.