The Blueberry Forest - Part Two
My new painting is done! This magical forest is abundant with wild blueberries, deer and other little creatures... (perhaps you can see some in the painting?...)
The Blueberry Forest, 40" x 60", oil on canvas
My new painting is done! This magical forest is abundant with wild blueberries, deer and other little creatures... (perhaps you can see some in the painting?...) and so I'm calling it, The Blueberry Forest.
I made this painting shape by shape, colour by colour, working my way across the canvas and creating the complete image from the abstract.
The Blueberry Forest - details
“In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.”
The Blueberry Forest - Part One
This past year has been a huge challenge in patience and perseverance (among other things), so why not (I asked myself) start another big, intricate painting?
I don’t know why I do this to myself… But obviously I like a challenge.
I like to set big goals and I don’t like to give up…
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
This past year has been a huge challenge in patience and perseverance (among other things), so why not (I asked myself) start another big, intricate painting?
I don’t know why I do this to myself… But obviously I like a challenge.
I like to set big goals and I don’t like to give up.
(And big challenges create big rewards.)
The canvas I’m working on is 40” x 60” and I wanted to try something a little new… I wanted to make a painting in the same style as I did with Into the Mystic, but in full colour.
So, using one little abstract shape at a time, I'm slowly working my way up and across the canvas... to create the whole image of the forest.
It’s like doing a giant puzzle that I’m making up as I go along…
If you like to do puzzles, you can probably understand… It requires much patience but it’s also therapeutic.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
I put together a little video (speeded up!) on this work in progress…
