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Nov
09

My first series of acrylic paintings – Lines From The Ground

Tagged: Lines From The Ground, Paintings, roots, series, trees

4 Comments

I never before knew the full value of trees.

My house is entirely embossomed in high plane-trees, with good grass below; and under them I breakfast, dine, write, read, and receive my company. What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

-Thomas Jefferson to Martha Randolph (from Philadelphia), 1793
You can't argue too much with Thomas Jefferson folks. I have had an obsession with drawing and painting trees since I was 16 years old. I love the texture, flow, shapes, and many variations of trees and how those qualities can be expressed in art. The flow of a tree and it's roots are the closest real world object to the lines in my mind.

So with this tree lovefest begins my very first series of paintings: Lines From The Ground. Over to the left are the colors I have in mind for my main color palette. As I wrote about in an earlier post, I'll draw 15 to 20 tree drawings, then pick between 8 and 10 to paint. Hopefully this new process works out well. I?€™ve never created a series of paintings before, so this can end up being a full artist-mind altering experiment, or a complete failure. But hey kids, you?€™ve gotta try out new methods of creating. Another goal of mine with Lines From The Ground is to not make the trees look too tendril or spaghetti like. I'm thinking more hard edges and cuts in the lines. Wish me luck!

4 COMMENTS

elle b. k. | November 9, 2009 at 9:59 pm

I love the cerulean blue, especially the red oxide and always raw sienna- Good luck with the series, it sounds fantastic!

linda | November 10, 2009 at 2:28 am

Beautiful work…I think this is a great idea…looking forward to seeing more!

IamANT | November 10, 2009 at 9:27 pm

Thanks there folks

Lines from the ground: The Drawings Part 1 | Creative Process | IamAnt.com: The Painting, Drawing, Ranting, & Raving Blog of IamANT | November 21, 2009 at 9:34 am

[...] part 1 of the series of drawings I’ve created for my tree painting series: Lines from the ground. I talked about this tree series last week and introduced the concept behind the paintings. Below you’ll find the first six drawings that I’ve [...]