Cork Tree (Working Title) Work in Progress
Stage 1
Stage 1
Oil palette knife painting
30x60 cm 12x24 inch
It's
iris time again. Every year we take a trip over to an iris nursery near
Hyeres. It's quite a trip so we usually take the opportunity to travel
around and take in a some of the countryside. This year was no
exception. Part of our travels takes us through the Maures national park
which is full of oak cork trees and sweet chestnut trees. I always take
loads of photos, of course, and plenty of the cork trees.
We last went around this area last September and I painted this cork tree painting
Cork Sentinels available in my Etsy shop
We last went around this area last September and I painted this cork tree painting
Cork Sentinels available in my Etsy shop
About Today's Painting
For
today's painting I needed a long canvas. I had a 30x60 cm canvas with a
partly painted lily on it. I lost interest in the lily and it has been
sitting on my 'to be finished pile' for about 2 years. As it was only
as far as the underpainting stage the acrylic layer was quite thin and
made an ideal surface for painting my cork tree.
Stage 1
I
wiped a thin layer of linseed oil over the canvas before mapping out
the shape of the tree. After roughly indicating the outline of the tree I
filled in the sky spaces. I used a mixture of ultramarine blue, ocean
blue and white which was a mixture of underpainting white, this dries
super fast, and titanium white. My intention was to start darker at the
top, move through to light blue and indicate more cloud at the bottom. I
also paid attention to the sky spaces making sure they were all
different shapes and sizes and all abstract. I wasn't too fussed about
covering all of the old painting - perhaps the colour peeping through
would add 'something'.
It's funny, but I find the effect of the old painting on the tree trunk oddly interesting!
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