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Big Trees--Not That Big But Not Postcards

2/23/2012

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Swamp Tree
More trees but this time I am starting to like them more. I find that I like the paintings that have their origin in my brain rather than in reality or in a photo.

I just don't care about reality. Swamp Tree is a sort of pine tree on top and a mutant mangrove on the bottom. I keep trying to paint mangroves and messing them up. Tree in a Hollow was another botched attempt at a mangrove. I like the grass I used to cover up the mistakes. Both Swamp Tree and Tree in a Hollow were paintings I intended to do more to but then I looked at them and thought; "Nah, they are done."

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Swamp Tree
OK so, Spooky Color Tree is a painting I screwed up and put too much water in and then just added colors and left it at that. I admit to not really much liking it. Look at the roots, another failed mangrove!

NOW, Light Tree, I really like. It is getting close to what I actually want to do. I am not entirely sure if I really have finished it yet...we shall see.
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Tree in a Hollow
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Light Tree
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Spooky Color Tree
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Laura
2/23/2012 09:38:24 am

I like tree in a hallow and light tree the best...but tree in a hallow is my favorite...love the shades of grass at the bottom...super cool...really caught my eye and I keep going back to that one....

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    Patrick Ogle

    For many years I painted. Then I stopped. These paintings started out a sort of experiment. Even when I did paint I never did watercolor. I spent a lot of time trying to be Van Gogh painting oil. Most of the paintings were unfinished. I decided to start using watercolor based only on the recollections of what my father had tried to teach me years ago. The newer paintings are the more recent. If you go back to the beginning you can see the early stumbling ones.

    I didn't start by drawing, I didn't practice. I just painted. I haven't included ALL the paintings and at some point I will post the first ones I did. But most of the paintings--for good or ill are here. Some are oil and also gouache.

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