Winter Tree (6x4) A Mini Homage To Coldness

4/10/2012

Some of my trees are getting more fanciful. Many of this first group of minimalist trees are horrible looking--I overpainted.

Here I knew when to stop. I kind of like this one--although I have to resist the urge to paint more on it because it isn't exactly right. You can see what I mean in the large picture below.

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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.

Winter Tree (6x4) A Mini Homage To Coldness

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