"Forest Wonders" mixed media abstract tree landscape painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Forest Wonders

Another mixed media collage in my tree series - this one was a demo in my recent workshop in Lacomb, LA.  My students love doing these tree paintings when they get the hang of it. 

I keep emphasizing "dark on light and light on dark" - its all about values.

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"TREE PARTY" 12035, contemporary mixed media collage tree painting © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Tree Party

I had fun painting this one because I just threw caution to the wind and used whatever colors I felt like.

Never seen red, turquoise, or purple trees? No problem in my world.

This painting was a demo for my experimental acrylics class.  Sometimes it's hard to create "on demand" in a class or workshop.  My effort in class was not satisfactory to me.

The next day, home in my studio, I could see the problem more clearly.  I tore off the large corrugated paper tree that WAS on the right side and replaced it with a lighter weight paper and added more trees in the foreground.

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"FEBRUARY MORNING" 12011, contemporary mixed media forest tree abstract © Carol Nelson Fine Art

February Morning

I used textured wall paper for the trees.  I like the textured look of the paper.  The background was applied thickly with a palette knife.

This palette is different for me - there's no orange!  Well, there's orange, with white and yellow, in the sky color, but that's really an orange TINT.

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"PARKVIEW 1" 11079 abstracted tree forms © Carol Nelson Fine Art

Parkview 1

I made this forest abstract out of stuff that was just sitting around on my big worktable.  We have combusted foil, burlap, a piece of Citrasolv treated Nat Geo, and strips from an old painting.


The background of the panel was painted with Daniel Smith's gold gesso and shows through in several places.  There is a slight fading of the photo on the left because of the light source (daylight outside).  If I increased the contrast to make the left side OK, the right side would be too dark (sigh).

This piece will be in the miniature show at AUM Gallery in Denver.
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