Today I thought I’d develop some more woodland scenes. I first studied a section of George’s Braque’s ‘Paysage à La Ciotat in acrylic, using black and white as I wanted to solely concentrate on brush work without colour as a distraction, besides, I’m still working on generating ideas for Morozoko (Jack Frost) which at the moment I’m thinking of using monochrome colours for. Braque’s piece caught my eye as he seems to exaggerate the life in everything he paints through his curved – bouncy strokes. I enjoyed making a study of his work and as much as I enjoyed painting the tree itself I enjoyed painting the gaps in the branches – the background, equally and I’m fairly pleased with the outcome. I then went on to paint a study of one of my own photographs of a woodland scene in the style of Braque but this time in oils. I became immediately excited the minute my brush touched the paper, loaded with oil paint, as I realised oils are to disclose all sorts of new grounds for me to explore!
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