I’m really getting some good knife work into this painting. I have finally started to be at ease with my palette knife, and have tried to make it a good friend as Bob would say. Originally, this happy scene started out as Gray Mountain, but once I made that distant set of mountains, I was so excited I went ahead and painted the foreground range as well. Got a little zealous with my new found mountain skills I decided for a nice quaint green meadow… Which obviously never quite happened.
I had to fill in the gap on right with something tall, so evergreens were a good choice. I haven’t yet tried using the 2″ brush to make trees. Also, needed a tree on the left of the then grassland. Then I needed bushes. Though colorful, they are sad little bushes. Certainly there is a secret to their adhesion. Perhaps my paint is simply not thin enough, it never exits the bristles with Bob’s “organic” look to it. Any one care to comment on how I can achieve the happy little bush effect?
Overall, It’s a happy little painting that makes me smile! That’s all that matters!
Additionally, This was painted on what would have been my mothers 77th Birthday. My mother passed on July 20, 2017. She is missed daily; this painting was born from pain and grief, but lives to be a beauty of the wall.
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