Satin Spar Outcrop by Martin S Taylor

Great painting Martin.

How interesting and a very good painting too

Good work , I spend a lot of time in woods and you look like you have grasped it.

Like it.

Like this Martin

Like this a lot!

Thanks very much for your kind comments. Always appreciated

This is a beauty. The use of bright green as a carrier for the eye is marvelous. I like the pen drawing of small trunks and branches left free of paint on the right. You've simplified and turned a complicated scene into a marvel of interest.

Thanks Lynnne that’s really kind of you to observe and comment so fully

I have something rather similar in one of my sketchbooks - in my case, it's a massive chunk of cliff which, many years ago, fell and rolled hundreds of yards, and now has quite mature trees growing out of it... I was going to paint it properly, but then - I'd have to compete with this! Cautiously, I back away... You have indeed transformed something relatively commonplace into a rather special study in contrasts - or if not commonplace, something most people would walk past without a second look: which is what real artists do!

Very kind Robert. My best A level at school was Geology and I’ve retained an interest in looking at strata and outcrops etc. I’m sure you’d do a great painting from your sketch and I look forward to seeing it. No pressure!!