These black oaks are ungainly, with little foliage and often a lot of stringy moss at the top. Not a particularly attractive tree, but I do like watching them sway back and forth wildly on stormy days.
(Watercolor with graphite on smooth Bristol)There are a lot of these in Oregon...
(Watercolor on Magnani Pescia 100% rag)I'm not sure what these trees are, but I love the greyish/blue color.
(Watercolor on Magnani Pescia 100% rag)
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Sharon, what a treat it is to open this post and see all your beautiful trees. Colours are wonderful - the grey ones are gorgeous and I love the glass clear quality of your watercolour. Are you using a HP paper?
My fave Oregon tree is the ponderosa pine with it's huge cones and distinctive bark.
I think your gray trees are Russian olives (common in Oregon).
Nice work.
Wow! These tree studies are beautiful! I really like your treatment of them here, Sharon. Those gray trees are so delicately painted.
Absolutely beautiful trees! I do admire your sensitivity with watercolor.
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It's all lovely. (Now I'm returning to the vicarious visuals from a few posts back. ;-)
On a hike that darn near killed me I took a photo of grove of trees in Rocky Mtn. National Park that I want to try. I love trees, and like many other people, I have real problems capturing their charm. Your grey truck trees are really nice, repetition and variation, rhythm. I will get off my dead rear and try them tomorrow.
Sharon--I missed these ... but I'm glad I scrolled down: they're simply beautiful, just perfect!! I too love the grays in the bottom one, and the shadows; and the way the evergreens are placed on the page and the juicy darks are just great!
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