Cloudcroft, Aspens, NM.

 Cloudcroft Aspens

8"x 6" canvas

 Mounted on 10"x 8" painted board  $160.

Purchase HERE

Artist Note.
When I was in gorgeous, Cloudcroft N.M.
earlier this summer, I had chance to really
absorb the details of aspen trees.
(I almost called this painting Crooked Aspen
but thought twice about it!!!)
I was fascinated how some grew tall and straight
but others would take a foot or two one way
and then a foot or two a different way.
I wonder why...and if anyone knows
please let me know.

Anyway, I knew I wanted to paint the trees
but with more of my exploration
into the different fracturing and mark making.
How busy could I get without losing the
forest for the trees?

This one is quite contemporary
with a different color palette for me.
Loved doing it and I have a small series going.

...and while I am experimenting...

I had a lady complain that my regular

6x8 paintings were hard to frame 

because it was not a regular size.

Here I have glued the canvas onto

a painted Masonite panel, the
same as I usually do but this time
it is a larger board so I took the paint out
over the edges and rather like
how it looks 

It will slip easily into any frame of your choice

I have a frame I like it in Sorry not quite straight.

Trees

Trees

8x6in oil on canvas panel $125.

Click HERE to purchase

Painted from a photo I took in Colorado

a few years ago. 

Artist Note

I felt like using some 

spring green color with a palette knife. 

My green mixtures were made from 

Hansa Yellow - Turquoise - a touch of light pink.

Naples or Yellow Ochre and Ultramarine Blue Deep 

I mix my deep U Blue with a bit of white to bring it up to 

the same value as the yellow ochre before mixing together.

Green has always been a difficult color for me 

so I did a lot of exercises to try to learn to control it.

The one thing I found important was to have

a little pile of pink mixed from  

 any Rose or Permanent Alizarin, 

in three values - light/med/dark - to add 

to the matching value mixture needed.

Talking of trees...

One of our sons has started to make these

wonderful trees as a hobby.  

He has always been a creative thinker 

enjoying unique skills at problem solving.

We are now also very proud of his artistic talent.

I took these photos showing them in the gallery 

Trees by Jason Oliver

Young Trees ll

Young Trees ll

6x8in oil on canvas board  $125.


This is from a photo I took in the spring of these lovely young trees
growing by a dry stream bed at the base of our local mountains.
When the monsoons start next month, the stream will become alive
with nourishment for them...just in time.