Gina Barry: trees

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Beginning

This is the drawing that inspired circle trees.
I transferred it to a 6x6 board.
It is important to remember your roots...
No pun intended, just happy to have it happen.
Trees...

Friday, January 27, 2012

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Paint and brush strokes are the focus of this little painting. Still a tree but not like most of my pen and ink drawing trees... Still exploring and learning. I may never paint the same tree twice... Until I do...

Two trees on texture

The theme of trees repeats in my art. But not the tree living in a forest or by a babbling brook. I paint the tree not in landscape. Few have foreground. Few are planted in the earth. The trees I paint are like portraits. A simple view if a tree. Focus on form and texture. Not photo realism. I could paint the landscape, but that is not my muse. I am bored with the grass and the sky. I paint my tree subject in simplicity and without the rules that I know of landscape, but of the importance of the character of the subject.

Monday, January 09, 2012

Trees

8 x 10
Circles and trees...

Picking colors next to each other on the color wheel to bring harmony
But they some how remind me of beetle juice...
With the stripes and spiral circles...
Perhaps my recent viewing of corpse bride had more of an influence than I admit.