Bio-pic (story of a minor oak)

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Super Mick - composition, colours and brushwork

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 01 Nov 11:12:12

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.

Posted by Robert Jones, NAPA on Sun 01 Nov 17:10:04

Hang on Studio Wall

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

Go to - www.leetham-cooper-art.co.uk - for full profile and artist's statement. Fine Art graduate, teacher and developer of art software. I use 'casual', off-guard snapshots and video frames as sources for paintings. My work is an attempt to explore the fleeting moment, finding ways to…

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