Looking Up

by Beverley Harper Tinsley

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Price

$235

Dimensions

6.000 x 12.000 inches

Title

Looking Up

Artist

Beverley Harper Tinsley

Medium

Painting - Watercolor And Graphite

Description

Looking Up
This is a view looking up at several white barked trees showing autumn foliage in shades of yellow, orange, red and gold, with patches of Colorado blue sky showing through between the leaves. It was my first time using one of my exciting new paints, which are Finetec Artist Mica Watercolors. They are made with mica, a natural mineral that shimmers and shines, and I just knew that the addition of a little gold around the edges of the leaves was what I needed to complete this vision.
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In our relationship with trees, we often depict them, in the distance, as part of a larger or greater view, but I feel we experience trees more personally and intimately, when we walk below their branches or view them just outside our windows, the bark at eye level, the leaves forming a canopy above us, and the sides and undersides of branches in view against that colorful mass, as dark and defined shadow shapes, almost calligraphic in their revealed detail, against varying layers of transparency and opacity, cloud like clusters and forms with light shining through them, sparkling on their sheen, backlighting and haloing the edges.
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The eventual owner of the original painting, Looking Up, will find that the subtle gold mica paint accenting the piece shines beautifully and seems to move, when viewed from different angles, a special effect I cannot hope to capture fully with photography. The original painting is currently available as matted and framed in a simple black frame with white matting, for a presentation size of 17H x 11W. Please contact the artist directly for photos of the painting as framed.

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July 21st, 2017

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