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| Soft Forest Blues, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 inches Exhibited: Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan, CT |
My thanks to the collector for purchasing my work and to Sorelle Gallery for gracefully making it all possible.
A bit about this oil:
The goal here was to do a forest with blues woven into the composition. I wanted something subtle without the blues being primary. It's easy to use blues to make trees but it's difficult to make them believable.
All of the colors are greyed down, even the darks and lights, allowing the different blues to gently glow in the background. The numerous trunks and branches create a lot of complexity, all to create a veil for the blue hues. The line of trees is bordered with that bit of sky and the muted orange below, a bit of reality to bring it all together.
Finally, the foreground was muted even more, allowing the other subtleties in the painting a chance to be noticed.
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