With this oil painting everything flowed like a dance. A lovely background made it possible to create a fun, lively painting. Here is the base layer left in the background, which I painted weeks before the actual trees joined in. The background itself looks fascinating too.
It’s super fun to keep adding all kinds of interesting dimensions of colour to paintings. You can highlight things that busy people just can’t see in all their hurry.
Once the oil paint had dried, I painted the actual greenery, which – like everything – fades away with the autumn.
With this painting I discovered an interesting way to test how well a picture “stands out”. Take a photo of the painting and switch it to black and white – if the painting looks like “flat porridge”, you need to think about which details to emphasise. Here it is before and after I added a little more contrast to the trees.
