Finishing Touches

(C) 2019 Dale DiMauro

This painting I posted recently in a less advanced stage. I had not painted to date a great mature tree in silhouette. I feel like I made a good attempt at capturing the presence of this specimen with it's twisting limbs and gnarly bark.

Above all I love the landscape. The feel of fresh snow and mystery of what's over the rise in land adds more to the picture.

Gerard Doucette, my critic and art advisor, helped to articulate the snow line so that it was not such a hard edge and give dimension. Also, he suggested an approach to correcting the upper left limb which had become flat and out of proportion. We basically lifted paint from the meaty part of the limb extending it towards the sky to counterbalance with the other major branching.

It is always rewarding to receive constructive criticism and gain insight from other people. Such comments give a final direction to the painting. This way when I am at a similar fork in the road on a future painting I may draw upon a greater well of experience.