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the trees are now red

painting
one of a kind
media: mixed media, paper, watercolor

$350 - h: 30" x w: 22" - original

Sold to private collector in December 2012.

Signed; mixed water media on watercolor paper, layered and textured.

From the Artist: "This piece began as a line drawing of trees in Louisiana after walking in the forest. The natural palette of browns, greens, blues seemed to scream out what was missing: red! I transferred a line drawing of these trees with crayons on a light box. The crayon serves as a resist. The underpainting started with throwing and pouring paint (highly pigmented flat latex), blues, greens and yellows. I lightly misted the wet paint and let new colors and shapes happen. After drying, to differentiate layers of a background, I tucked (with a rounded flat brush to avoid halos) shapes with liquid acrylic (transparent burnt umber and sometimes red and sometimes blue) causing the background to recede. To differentiate the layers, I sealed each layer with water based polyurethane and sanded lightly with fine steel wool.

"Now, my focal point the trees... I painted the trees with several shades of red latex, tucking the edges with transparent acrylic liquid burnt umber. To create motion, I stamped wire shapes onto the trees randomly with gloss white latex paint adding pure liquid gold accents."

The piece has been on display at the Attic Gallery, 1101 Washing St., Vicksburg, MS.

© 2010 - margaret watts



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