New painting: “Two Trees”
August 24, 2011 at 12:31 pm 2 comments
I am scrambling like mad to get several new paintings finished in time to show them at the upcoming art show in Northern California, Kings Mountain Art Fair, Labor Day Weekend. (See all my upcoming shows here.)
This is the latest.
“Two Trees” by Barbara J Carter, acrylic on canvas, 40×30 inches.
“Two Trees” depicts an iconic Californian scene, a pair of scraggly oak trees atop a golden-hued hill. I like to emphasize the honey-amber tones of the dry grass that covers so much of California throughout the dry season. For this painting, I also pulled those yellow-gold tones into the sky to make the silhouetted trees just that much more dramatic. Who says the sky always has to be blue?
A few days ago I thought this painting was finished, so I set it aside and turned my attention to another. But something was niggling at me, so I put it back on my easel and worked a little more on it. I shifted the colors in the hill more emphatically to yellow-orange tones, and downplayed the cooler colors like blue and green. (How do I do this? You’ll have to ask me in person!) That really integrated the painting into a unified whole. So now it’s really finished, and ready for the big art show. See you there!
Kings Mountain Art Fair September 3-5, 2011.
Entry filed under: Acrylic, Landscape, Painting, Pointillism.
Barbara J Carter 
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Malena B | August 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm
awesome painting…it’s usually very difficult for me to feel like any of my pieces are ever “done”
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barbarajcarter | August 24, 2011 at 12:55 pm
It helps to have a hard deadline looming! 🙂