Tree Alone

tree alone
Originally uploaded by rudisillart.

This is another treatment (done in plein air) of one of my favorite trees near Lake Merritt, Oakland, California. I did this oil painting study originally as one of several showing different stylistic treatments of the trees. This one has a flowing feeling of the wind. The other is more about the textures (especially when the substrate primer absorbs all the oil immediately) Here's a link to my other painting of this same tree http://cazsh.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html