Autum Red Woodlands Painting
by Edward McNaught-Davis
Title
Autum Red Woodlands Painting
Artist
Edward McNaught-Davis
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Paper
Description
Painting woodland scenes is quite difficult to achieve while painting with dominate reds but this particular autumn red woodlands painting seems to have the correct balance with its cool greens and the slightly warmer and partially hidden orange foliage.
People say that they can see happy faces within the tree foliage and on the lawn but I did not knowingly put them there. They just appeared without any conscious effort from me.
As far as I was concerned I was painting a countryside scene based purely on memory and after much research. The picture shows depth too as you can see by looking beyond the thin dark tree trunks and over the sunny green grass lawn.
Often when I am out and about I am looking for scenes to paint and on this particular occasion I was researching red leaf trees and which can be quite hard to find. It is usually more of a case that I stumble across what I hope to find and generally when I am not looking in particular for anything specific.
Something will catch my eye, usually on my periphery of vision and I will investigate further; time permitting. This tends to happen more when I am driving my car on a long road trip.
Red & Green can play havoc with your eyes but it seems to work well here with the light yellowy greens of the lawn helping to enhance the deep reds of the foreground trees and vice versa.
There are many tints of red colour within the painting too and all mixed from a primary red. Darker greens can be seen on the background trees.
Yellow was added to the lawn and to the orange trees too to represent the afternoon sunlight. The distant lawn is shown as a cool green as this is in partial shade.
My approach to this red woodland scene painting was to use quality acrylic paint rather like how watercolour is used and on a suitably weighted paper.
To get the colours how I wanted them to be, I painted in many thin layers until I got the desired colouring.
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February 27th, 2011
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