When I first started this painting it had much more details on the leaves. However later I wanted to change it to a more simple look for mainly the red and yellow leaves. The plan before all this was to paint a tree outside but that didn’t happen. Always next time…
I tried using some painters tape to create this painting. I may be a little color blind according to some friends but all these shapes look green to me!
I didn’t start with any particular color but the white paint seemed to fit well on the painting. I was using a plastic knife the entire time with very little brush work.
This came out much better then expected. The hardest part for me was getting the detail fine tuned. With the short time period I’ve been painting it’s already obvious that detailed work is not for me. My hands have a slight to moderate shake so it makes it much harder to do anything that requires [...]