This will be the last tree painting for a while as I get on with a painting for my upcoming slot on Every Day Original. As with most of the others this painting has it's roots in a Midjourney piece (shown at the bottom of this post) although in this case I only used the tree as once I looked at it for a while it triggered the idea of a castle in the background which in turn suggested a very wintry scene and then the title just came to me straight away. Once I had the title I felt that the painting should reflect it so I decided to make it quite a bleak scene with the castle only suggested through a haze of frosty air. I kept the colours desaturated based on an orange/blue colour complementary. I had finished the tonal underpainting and was just packing up my paints when I had the inspiration to rub out to the canvas white a wan sun (although I guess it could be the moon) with a rag. I think this now makes the painting although maybe it would have been bleaker without it - I just can't resist the temptation to add beautiful lighting to a painting... I kept the shape of the castle quite squat and wanted to avoid it looking like a fairy tale castle.
Oil on fine cotton 16" x 12".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting in previous posts on this blog.
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