Live Oak Trees

Tree Paintings

Notes From my Tree Painting Journal

This is a scene from beautiful Fair Oaks in Evinston Florida. I love the way the branches dip down from the tree forming lovely arches. Sometimes the canopies run along the ground from these low branches. They form natural portals.

This painting is 20x24 inches, oil on canvas.

The palette:

cad lemon yellow

Naples yellow light

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thalo blue red shade

cad red light

ivory black

titanium white

I really enjoyed doing this painting.

A nice tree palette for Florida

Tree Paintings

Notes From My Tree Journal

I did this 9x12 painting today and I really enjoyed it. I had no problems with it which leads me to believe it is my plein air work that I'm having trouble adjusting to.  This was a studio painting, so thank goodness the studio work seems to be going smoothly.

I particularly like this palette for Florida paintings.

Yellow Ochre (Old Holland)

Ultramarine Blue (Golden)

Cadmium Lemon Yellow (Old Holland)

Titanium White (Winsor & Newton)

Ivory Black (Winsor & Newton)

Cadmium Red Light (Old Holland)

This is the palette I most often use and it has a great range without getting out of control.

There are a few colors that I can add as accents here and there at the end of the painting occasionally but this painting only has the above colors:

Red iron Oxide (Old Holland)

Thalo Blue Red Shade (Old Holland)

Cad Yellow Medium (Grumbacher)

Rose (Winsor & Newton)

The first six colors are really good for winter painting too, using a heavier bias of the ocher and less of the cad lemon.