Well these are the latest works.  The poplar painting is titled "A Forest of Trees" and is composed of two 20x40 canvases covered in goldleaf.  Artists refer to this as a diptick,  I call it two paintings, but what do I know.  I have learned that doing a diptick composition is quite a bit more difficult than a single in that you have to have each stand up as a separate composition and a good composition together.  Hopefully I have achieved that and the painting invites you to take an imaginary walk into this sunlit forest.

 

 

The painting of the bracket fungi on a downed birch log is a pallet knife and brushwork painting.   I like trying to use the knife to create texture and rough blend the colours together.  This gives a more natural look to mixed colour atleast in my mind it does.  I was trying to contrast the bark of an old dying tree to the bark found on the young birch in the midground.  I titled the painting "Renewal"

 

Well that's it for this blog and I'll probably only have one more before we head out for a winter holiday.  Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

December 8, 2012

I have been remiss in my postings.  Part of it has to do with the Wintergreen sale, which went fairly well, and me just being both busy and lazy after it.  The holiday season seems to get out of hand some times, it's a good thing my wonderful wife keeps me on track.  Art wise I have been back at the painting and trying some new varigated metal leaf along with some pallet knife work .  The pallet work has brought me a small commission piece so I must be doing something right.  I'm not sure folks know how to react to the paintings on gold, copper and now varigated leaf.  Some look sort of puzzled when they see the light changing the whole view of the painting.  At any rate here are some more examples of what I have been up to.