By Paulette Poirier
Greater free time allows for experimentation. Paulette has been trying different processes to develop varied works.
I took a photo towards the end of March 2020, at the end of the afternoon on a cold wet day. This painting resulted.
My granddaughter took a photo of a plant at home. Then I used part of it to illustrate these 2 leaves as my experiment trying my luck at getting away from the subject as much as I feel comfortable.
I’ve walked a lot in South Lancaster these last 2 months and taken many interesting photos of trees and tree trunks. This is what resulted.
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Hi Paulette…fascinated by your lovely tree trunk. Would like to know more about the technique you used. Flip (Flockton)
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Hi Flip, thanks for your comment, the tree trunk exercise was a lot of fun of trial and error which I started to get my grandkids interested in possibilities of seeing faces in a tree trunk and giving it character based on how you happen to be feeling, mind you I’m not sure they enjoyed it as much as I did. I used oil paint and lots of paint thinner to make a wash of my intended colors. Used my dirty paper towel to smudge here and there and it was dry in no time so I finished it off with a fine marker to give it that ‘pen and ink’ feel.
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Love the tree face! And ” Leaves” is a beautiful and balanced composition. You have used admirable restraint in the use of colour….something that is not always easy to do.
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Paulette, these works are fabulous. I also like the very subtle use of colour, and those leaves look like I could pick them up off the page. Thanks for sharing!
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