A beautiful morning....and no need to go out! Can't go anyway, also nowhere to go...like so many I'm at home for the duration...so went for a walk around the garden (or yard as it's called in the USA)...to see what inspired me..I love the misty sense of the new leaves on the maples and and gauzy veils of redbud flowers....
I'm also fascination by the way they can obscure the branches to some degree...
it's all shapes and values folks...and color!
But like a good cook (which alas I'm not!!) Nature puts the colors and shapes together so beautifully to create something magical...
I love the way the clouds of color drift horizontally.....
and all the different pinks and golds and lavenders....
see how the pink appears like dots on the tree trunk below???
Look and look and look...take a few photos...and into the basement aka "The Studio" when VTBI (visitors to be impressed!) com.....
to try my hand out at painting ...
so...tell me what you think??? I got the composition from the third photo, but most of the colors from the second one...and the idea from the first one!
and...if you have been...thanks for reading!
Love comments!!! c'mon---you have time today!!!! Elizabeth
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I love it! So spontaneous and gives the same feeling as the photos only better. Good job... and a great way to be in isolation!
Gorgeous leaves -- spring is coming and it is always beautiful.
Thank you Elsie and Marj k......like the film director said: careful planning and then wild improv!
Nature is giving us a marvelous show this spring...and now we have time to enjoy it!
Elizabeth
I like your painting, but LOVE the photo. It looks like a magical place- the bridge, the mist, the colours... wow!
Hi boomerRose.....I love that photo too...there's a nice sense of "beyond" to it...thanks for writing....Elizabeth
You have a beautiful garden. I really like the composition with the bridge. Getting the depth in the woods would be a challenge.
This week I'm using your advice in designing my new composition - freeing myself from the limits of my source photo. As a science teacher its pretty ingrained to make things at least a little realistic. I've pasted your blog wisdom over the years into a file, thanks for the input
Hi Mary! Yes the garden is gorgeous and a great comfort right now.....
Thank you for the compliment!!! NKathy! I had a long hiatus when I was sick, but all good now...
And of course we’re all restricted to online teaching now.
Re design, we have to ADD in our feelings...WHY we wanted to make art about a certain place/idea.....
Not easy...but interesting to try!!
Elizabeth
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