Deep Forest – Oil on Canvas – Heavy Texture
Deep Forest uses a single color and spreads over in different shades and hues. It is actually a painting over a painting because I salvaged an existing canvas that did not have much on it. Thanks to liberal amount of gesso and paper shreds, a lovely texture was created. And that lovely canvas texture in pure white formed images of woods, branches, trees and more. It itself gave rise to an old deep forest.
I love textures in paintings – with lots of paint. But for deep forest, the textures were made with shreds of tissue paper, little water and gesso. I had to leave it to dry for 2 days and did another layer of gesso to seal it all in. All I had was a milk white canvas with beautiful textures that looked like a painting. Needless to say, it needed a bit of green. Verte green was not my first color of choice. I chose it to make the undertones. When I started with this shade of green, I could not stop.
Terre Verte is surprisingly a beautiful color (dirty yet leafy). A blob on the palette deceives its capabilities. But as you go about using it over white, it looks spectacular. I see myself using more of it in future. And not to mention that the above photo is not an exact reproduction of verte green color due to the camera/ monitor technicalities.
I’d say, go get that shade for yourself and start playing. You wont be disappointed.
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Exactly my dear….no better words to describe it….
Lovely, Mystic.
That green which is calm, cool and life giving. Yet dense and deep. That smell of damp earth and fresh leaves. Those little creatures of forest that sleep within. That forest untouched.
When the rain has drenched the entire forest with love, and purity…the rain never forsakes us, the forest rejoices, laughs, dances, then after all this noisy-joy-expression of thankfulness, it becomes calm, thoughtful, and colors become a philosophy green.
This is what your painting represents to me.
Love all you do,
Mystic Peace Poet.
Beautiful… It looks like the view of a dense forest on a rainy, misty evening.
Thanks Iniyaal. Hope you are keeping well now.
It does look like a dense forest. I just made another one (a landscape) with the same technique and will be posting soon. Let me know what you think about it. Cheers!
Great for deep shade and will tolerate partial shade.