So here’s the last of the marsh pines paintings. The original idea with these was to focus on the dock/boardwalk but the harshness of the lines kept bothering me. So, I used a little artistic license and took it out. I have a whole bunch of new things starting next week.
Here is the second (really third) of these pines. I was trying to simplify the colors and maintain a little more control over what went where. The oil primed linen was throwing me off and I could not shake this weird yellow tint on the whole thing.
This painting is the second version of 246. After I got back to the studio I was able to quietly sit and really explore the scene. I edited out a number of the elements that were competing for focus and zeroed in on the main tree.
What I found after looking at the image was that there was this beautiful spot of light that was hitting the tree. The sunlight illuminated a specific spot on the tree and told me what the story was. So then, instead of it just being a painting of a tree it became a painting of how light hit the tree.
Les had bought some mums in the Fall, and these looked perfect in the light. I set up my easel on the front porch to tried and capture them.
Adam Houston is an American impressionist oil painter. He lives outside of Athens, GA and paints the landscape of the surrounding country. In 2010 he began the blog 100 Paintings by Adam where he documented his progress as an artist.
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