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I've a feeling I've done all I usefully can with this acrylic - don't want to labour it. It's a dead tree, that dominates part of the garden and provides perches for birds of all kinds, but especially crows, jackdaws, and magpies: presumably that's so they can see the buzzards or peregrines coming. Anyway, any views you might have, always welcome.
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There is a dead tree quite near to me and every time I see it I want to paint it, but I’m driving so I forget it until next time I pass it.
Lovely shape, lovely painting. But it doesn’t look ‘dead” to me. It looks like a tree in winter..
Not having seen your tree I can’t really comment. I like it very much as a painting....my dead tree that I pass is smooth and gaunt....decidedly DEAD .
You have now given me the impetus to stop and sketch it .
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Thanks to all. Sylvia has put her finger on the point that worried me a bit - it doesn't look anything like as dead as the tree itself really is; a titling problem, perhaps! I won't make more than minor adjustments to this one, but I think I'll paint it again in another format (and probably a different medium) to see if I can capture its deceased status more convincingly.