trees Archives - Liza Visagie https://lizavisagie.com/tag/trees/ Artist. Painter. Teacher Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:16:25 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://lizavisagie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/favicon1-150x150.png trees Archives - Liza Visagie https://lizavisagie.com/tag/trees/ 32 32 New Release. The Tropics https://lizavisagie.com/new-release-the-tropics/ https://lizavisagie.com/new-release-the-tropics/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 05:16:25 +0000 http://lizavisagie.com/?p=299 Based on a recent trip to Hawaii, this painting, “The Tropics” hopes to bring some colour and light into the grand design. This is the first in a series of

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]]> Oil on Linen. 65 inches x 82 inches

Oil on Linen. 65 inches x 82 inches


Based on a recent trip to Hawaii, this painting, “The Tropics” hopes to bring some colour and light into the grand design. This is the first in a series of paintings of the tropics. Here are some artist I mentally checked in with while painting: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, John Singer Sargent’s watercolours of Florida, Mark Rothko as a reminder for future work, Josef Albers ideas around “Interaction of Color” and my attempt in trying to disprove Aldous Huxley theory of “On the absence of Painters in the Tropics”

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]]> https://lizavisagie.com/new-release-the-tropics/feed/ 2 Buttercup Fields https://lizavisagie.com/buttercup-fields/ https://lizavisagie.com/buttercup-fields/#respond Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:49:24 +0000 http://lizavisagie.com/?p=292 “Late Spring Orchard” A week before at this location the trees were in bloom and now these buttercup flowers appeared almost overnight. My paint application and approach was soft when

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]]> Oil on Linen. 6.50 inches x 8.50 inches

Oil on Linen. 6.50 inches x 8.50 inches


“Late Spring Orchard”
A week before at this location the trees were in bloom and now these buttercup flowers appeared almost overnight. My paint application and approach was soft when painting the blinding vibrancy of the cadmium yellow buttercups in the orchard. Too strong of an approach would have taken away form the overall poetry of this perfect scene.

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