I tend to do paintings in a series - paper bags, animals, Florida landscapes. What next? Certainly there are many possibilities waiting for me in any of the previous series.
Here is another of the Florida series, a live oak draped with Spanish Moss in an atypical sub-tropical 'wooded' setting. Again I like the sun light streaming through the thickets onto selected spots dappling the open ground.
I have been experimenting with the overall tint(s) that I use prior to starting a a painting. With this one I used a tint of cadmium red light overall with little variation to the basic tone of this red, allowing the raw color to show through in selected places in order to lend a warming feel to the vegetation versus cool bright sunlit areas. I was tempted to cover further the areas that shown through strongly, however, I think the admonition so often offered of 'just enough, and no more' prevailed. The temptation passed, I took a break only to come back and declare this picture finished. This painting stands or falls on it's own from now on.
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