Trees Trees Trees

Mixed media paintings June & July 2012
Being painting trees for weeks working with a variety of media, here are some of my favourites. They aim to explore the liveliness of the subject through vibrant colours whilst trying to express movement with multiple fluid abstract strokes in contrast to stark backgrounds. 

  


 













Multicoloured Forest

This painting is approximately 170cm x 90cm. Using mixed media it was a culmination of several slightly smaller pieces. Working out the process of creating a colourful, lively forest.

Biro Drawings

 

This drawing emerged by itself starting from the small recess in the bottom of the tree and just adding whatever came into my mind or reacting to the marks on the paper. I could probably draw a lot of interesting analogy from the image myself and my own life. It would be interesting to find out other people's thoughts of what is going on in the drawing.  

This second image emerged from the marks in the tree above. I used the same repetitive mark throughout just adding shading to see how it developed. Below is a close up detail of the trunk.