Bio-pic (story of a minor oak) by Michael Leetham-Cooper

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Super Mick - composition, colours and brushwork

I know how it feels, though I still have some foliage left. Very cleverly done, you think there's a lot of detail, but then you look closely and it's nearly all suggested, to make the eye work. You'll have had a lot of fun, I think, depicting those twisting boughs.

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01/11/2020
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700x500mm Oil on canvas - What was the main trunk of the tree is completely dead and stripped of bark - most probably the result of a lightning strike (or perhaps over-zealous, mechanical hedge-trimming?) - but the tree survives!

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Michael Leetham-Cooper

See my NEW WEBSITE: www.leetham-cooper-art.com for full profile and artist's statement. Fine Art graduate, teacher and developer of art software. My work develops from snapshots or stills grabbed from video. Casual and opportunistic in character, these offer a practical and special source of…

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