The 6×18″ oil painting of a giant Sequoia, AKA Big Tree, sold at Kaweah Arts, an art consignment shop. When Nancy, the proprietor, let me know, I asked if it was bought by a friend or relative who felt sorry for me. She said that it went home to Wisconsin with a woman who always buys art to commemorate her travels.
Alrightythen! Looks like a winner of a subject for this store, so I’d better get cracking on another one.
I chose the photo with a more extreme angle of peering upward into the tree, but then just started making up things. After painting too many redwood trees to count, I feel fairly confident just winging it.*
It isn’t finished. More sky should be showing among the upper foliage, the ground is not right, the grasses along the bottom are too even, and the tree itself needs more detail and contrast.
*Apparently this rogue knitter and rogue baker is becoming a rogue oil painter too.
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The store is Kaweah Arts.
Oops, I will see what I did and correct it – thank you, Nikki! (It isn’t smart for me to post to my blog after a long day of work with a skull full of mush.)
Very nice, but in my not-so-expert opinion, it needs a burn scar. Just about every Sequoiadendron giganteum has one, and it’s one of the iconic parts of the Mighty Sequoia Tree!
Sharon, I’ve thought about that, but I know of plenty without burn scars. Maybe I need different reference photos. . .
Sure, that makes sense. The front just looks . . . plain to me. The bottom part already has the inward “scoop” so maybe it could be darkened just a bit?
But what do I know? I’m an aural artist, not a visual artist!
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