Tree Series, All Postcard Sized

2/16/2012

Tree #6

Years ago, when I was a kid, there was a magnolia tree on the border of my neighbors lawn. I somehow associated that tree with...something. It somehow meant something to me that I cannot describe. You do not see a lot of magnolias in South Florida so, in that, it was also special.

It died and was cut down but not before I painted an oil painting of the tree. I still have it somewhere. These postcard sized trees are based on that original painting and that tree.

They are not identical obviously.

Tree #1 (Magnolia)

Tree # 5 (Bald Cypress In Sawgrass)

2 Comments

Laura

2/16/2012 06:54:34 am

I really like these...number 5 is my favorite!

Patrick link

2/16/2012 11:08:32 am

I like that one too. I over painted it. I fiddled with it and sort of screwed it up...it looked better before!

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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.

Tree Series, All Postcard Sized

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