My Travel Paintings - Congaree National Park Under Tall Trees
Getting Face-to-Face Help from the Friendly Trees of Congaree. I captured this image while walking under tall Loblolly Pine trees while walking the Bluff Trail one Sunday morning in Congaree National Park. I uploaded the image here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/48450291857/in/album-7...). There was something magical about looking up with the tall trees all around and coming together likes spokes on a wheel that day. That’s the story behind this image and forest bathing, if you will.
As for painting this image, I tried to keep it simple using a thicker brush stroke for the trees to use as the basis for where I’d have the leaves. I then blended some other wood-like colors to give it what I get was a more natural look. I then used layers, on tope and below, to paint the leaves with varying shades and hues of yellow and green. The last part was painting the skies and adding a look to vary that blue with greens and darker blues with some clouds.
In the left center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the bottomland hardwood forest of Congaree National Park in South Carolina :-)
My Travel Paintings - Congaree National Park Under Tall Trees
Getting Face-to-Face Help from the Friendly Trees of Congaree. I captured this image while walking under tall Loblolly Pine trees while walking the Bluff Trail one Sunday morning in Congaree National Park. I uploaded the image here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/48450291857/in/album-7...). There was something magical about looking up with the tall trees all around and coming together likes spokes on a wheel that day. That’s the story behind this image and forest bathing, if you will.
As for painting this image, I tried to keep it simple using a thicker brush stroke for the trees to use as the basis for where I’d have the leaves. I then blended some other wood-like colors to give it what I get was a more natural look. I then used layers, on tope and below, to paint the leaves with varying shades and hues of yellow and green. The last part was painting the skies and adding a look to vary that blue with greens and darker blues with some clouds.
In the left center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the bottomland hardwood forest of Congaree National Park in South Carolina :-)