Fall dreamings
46x55 cm
oil on canvas
I´m finally back with a new oilpainting! I was sick almost all of september, couldn´t even eat for 12 days straight, it was awful. Went to the doctor so many times I stopped counting. So it took a while to gain back my strenghts, getting back to work and finally finding my way back to the painting.
Today is a beautiful fall day and I´ve been wanting to capture the fall feeling in a painting for a while now. So I´ve been taking lots of pictures of trees changing colors thinking about painting them. But instead I ended up using an old canvas that I had scrathched on with charcoal when I was only 2 years old. That made me start painting more freely instead of using any photograph as a reference. Used the color combination of indian yellow, sap green and alzarin crimson, sometimes blending them and sometimes using them more on their own.
I was trying to paint less controlled, letting brush strokes stay more often instead of working over them too much. I used my old charcoal lines as branches for trees. Funny thing to be "continuing" on something I did such a long time ago and don´t even remember drawing!
I´m putting up the whole series of photos I took of the painting in progress. I think the sky and trees still need some more work but I´m really happy with the light and shadows of the trees on the ground and with the bushes in the foreground.
