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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
One new painting almost every day
Today's ACEO Landscape
March 10, 2007
Landscape Study #78 2007
Another tree drawing. Trees are figuring significantly in my work of late. I'm not sure why because, for the most part, my choice of subjects the last few days have almost been instintual.
This pen and ink of a tree is more about the juxtaposition of the tree with its surroundings than anything else. When I began, I was going to put a towering thunderhead in the sky, but the branches of the tree took on a life of their own, so I used them to fill the sky instead.
2-1/2" x 3-1/2"
Original pen & Ink on Archiva Smooth 80 lb paper by Fox River
March 9, 2007
Landscape Study #77 2007
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original Crayola on on bristol vellum
March 8, 2007
Landscape Study #76 2007
Blue on Blue
The tree in this painting is one of my favorite trees. It is along my favorite backroads route through the Flint Hills and I look for it on every trip. I have quite a few photographs of it, but they were almost all taken on the same day, with flat light and not much excitement with either light or weather.
But this is the second painting I have finished featuring this tree (see also "Summer Tree", below) and there is a colored pencil ACEO lurking somewhere.
In today's painting, I covered an acrylic underpainting with oils, beginning with the sky and working my way forward. The composition had already been set up to be a snow scene (I started it back in February), so I simply adjusted the mixtures of Titanium White and Cerulean Blue accordingly and painted the hills working their way into the foreground.
When it came to painting the tree itself, I began with the same two colors. My intention was to block in the lights and darks on the branches with shades of blue, then add browns to give the tree color.
But I stopped halfway through painting the tree to take a walk with my husband and when I got back to the studio, this lovely composition in blues was calling to me. It was immediately obvious I needed to finish this painting as a value study in blue, so I paid more attention to the shadows in the branches than I might otherwise have done. When the tree was finished, I added a bit more definition to the shadow on the snow-covered ground.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
March 7, 2007
Landscape Study #74 2007
Summer Tree
Trees are among my favorite types of plants. Their towering heights and uplifted limbs are glorious things to me. When I moved to Kansas in 2002, I was concerned that there would not be many trees to see, but I was blessed to be moving to a town that has had a Tree City USA designation for years. Newton is full of trees of all types, including some of the most beautiful flowering trees I have ever seen.
Even out in the Flint Hills, where there is not a lot of moisture for such water loving plants, trees find ways to get by. Most waterways, even temporary ones, are lined by cottonwoods and other trees. The hardy Eastern Red Cedar is such an opportunitist that it is also sometimes called a nuisance. Osage Orange (otherwise known as Hedgewood or Hedge Apple Trees) have been used as windbreaks.
I am not sure what this tree is, but it is a personal favorite. It grows along a waterway that seems to have a trickle of water in it in all but the driest weather. The tree grows in a place wheree the waterway forms a rocky pool along the road. It's a beautiful location and a beautiful tree. I always look for it along that particular route through the Flint Hills.
And this painting is my first attempt to paint that tree's portrait. It is in oils and depicts the tree in the deep of summer, although there is plenty of water in the waterway, so a rain storm passe through in the not so distant past!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
March 6, 2007
Landscape Study #73 2007
This color study is based on the last sunset I saw in the Flint Hills. As soon as I noticed the brilliant bands of color across the evening sky, I knew I would have to paint it.
It was at least two days later when I put pencil to paper to try to recapture the glory of that wonderful sunset.
The colors are not as rich or vibrant as they might have been with oils or acrylics, but a sense of the feeling is there nevertheless. It does exactly what a color study should do and that is capture a moment for future use.
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original colored pencil on bristol vellum
March 5, 2007
Landscape Study #72 2007
Sittin' on the Side of the Hill
I couldn't resist this. I saw this white mustang last summer and snapped several photos as he sat down, scratched his tail, then proceded to take a nice, long, leisurely look around. I have wanted to paint it since then and may still do a larger, more 'serious' painting, but for now, this oil study is it.
I am calling it "Sittin' on the Side of the Hill" and if you read that and the tune from "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" begins to sound in your mind, that's okay!
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"
Original oil on acrylic sealed mat board
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