Serenity Oak 3

Tree Paintings

Notes From My Tree Painting Journal

It took me about a month to do this painting, working on it for a couple of hours at a time when I was at Fair Oaks on Sundays. I am here for a week, so I have been able to focus my time on painting upstairs in the studio for several hours a day. This is the third painting of this particular tree. It is a difficult tree to paint. There are many overlapping sections of the trunk and it has split into two sections as they are want to do in their great age. It is a mammoth tree.  I think this is the most successful of the three paintings, though I like the other two as well.

I used the following palette for the trunks and limbs:

UB

Raw Umber

Trans Red Iron Oxide

Ivory Black

Zinc White

Cad Orange

For the canopy and grasses:

Cad Lemon Yellow

Trans Red Iron Oxide

Cad Orange

Sap Green- I use Daniel Green Sap Green. it is unique and much cooler and deeper than other brands of Sap Green

Thalo Blue

Titanium White

The painting is 20x24 inches, oil on canvas.

Today I will start a new tree painting.