Daily Painting, “Symons Valley,” contemporary landscape painting

© Carolee Clark, “Symons Valley,” 10″ x 10″, acrylic

“Symons Valley”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Hide and Seek,” aspen tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Hide & Seek," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Hide and Seek”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

My sketch for this painting was super simple!

© Carolee Clark

Daily Painting, “Big & Sturdy,” acrylic tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Big & Sturdy," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Big & Sturdy”     sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Woods Creek Road,” contemporary landscape painting with trees

© Carolee Clark, "Woods Creek Road," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Woods Creek Road”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

© Carolee Clark, "Sentries," 10" x 10", acrylic

© Carolee Clark, "Concrete Relief," 10" x 10", acrylic

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Daily Painting, “Sentries,” tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Sentries," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Sentries”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$75 + $10 shipping and handling within US

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© Carolee Clark, "Backyard Apple Tree," 20" x 20", acrylic

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Daily Painting, “Stagecoach Road Trees,” contemporary tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Stagecoach Road Trees," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Stagecoach Road Trees”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Branching Out,” abstracted tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Branching Out," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Branching Out”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Vaseux Lake,” contemporary landscape painting

© Carolee Clark, "Vaseux Lake," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Vaseux Lake”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

© Carolee Clark

 

Daily Painting, “Vermilion Crossing,” contemporary landscape painting

© Carolee Clark, "Vermilion Crossing," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Vermilion Crossing”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Bow River,” contemporary landscape painting

© Carolee Clark, "Bow River," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Bow River”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Bow River runs through Banff, Alberta where I lived for three years.  Banff is a stunningly beautiful area and I was so lucky to be able to live, hike and enjoy the exquisite landscape.

When I first switched to acrylic from watercolor I used a lot of black to sketch in my image and built color up from there.  I still often sketch in my image with black paint.  In this painting, I enjoyed the old method of leaving more darks within the painting for dramatic value difference.

Below are a couple of examples of the larger paintings I did with this technique.  I covered up most of the black in the lower examples.

© Carolee Clark, "View From the Cabin," 18" x 24", acrylic

© Carolee Clark, "Trees at Cummins Creek," 28 x 22", acrylic

Daily Painting, “Metolius River,” contemporary landscape

© Carolee Clark, "Metolius River," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Metolius River”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Trees were taken from a different photograph, using my own color preferences, but inspired by Tom Thomson’s “Northern River.”  Tom Thomson was closely associated with the Canadian Group of Seven.

Tom Thomson "Study for Northern River"

Daily Painting, “Tree Canopy,” contemporary abstracted trees

© Carolee Clark, "Tree Canopy," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Tree Canopy”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

The sketch is so rough that I almost didn’t include it.  It is obvious that I did most of my planning by reacting to what I was putting on the canvas.  The sketch gave me a sense of what composition I wanted and how it would be lighter on one side than the other, but I really wanted to have an abstract, playful response to a grouping of trees and didn’t have much patience to put planning into this particular sketch.

© Carolee Clark, Sketch for "Tree Canopy"

This is a submission for the Virtual Paint Out blog. Their area of concentration this month is Sardinia.

Daily Painting, “Winter Approaches,” contemporary landscape

© Carolee Clark, "Winter Approaches," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Winter Approaches”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

© Carolee Clark, "Okanagan Lake," 10" x 10", acrylic

© Carolee Clark, "Apartment Jumble," 10" x 10", acrylic

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Daily Painting, “Concrete Relief,” contemporary tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Concrete Relief," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Concrete Relief”
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$69 + $10 shipping and handling within US

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This tree was actually in the Safeway parking lot.  I happen to love when the cities require a certain amount of vegetation in and around the buildings, parking lots and roadways as it totally changes the feeling of the place and allows some of the city rain runoff to do some good.  Plus, when I am waiting in the car in a parking lot, I get to draw something other than cars!

Daily Painting, “Oaks on Crooked Lane,” contemporary abstracted tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Oaks on Crooked Lane," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Oaks on Crooked Lane”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

© Carolee Clark, "Sketch for Oaks on Crooked Lane"

 

Daily Painting, “Ying & Yang,” contemporary tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Ying & Yang," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Ying & Yang”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

This painting was done on site at the Oregon Gardens in Silverton, Oregon.

For those of you in Oregon, I am showing some paintings through the month of July at the

Albany City Hall,
333 Broadalbin Street SW,
Albany, OR 97321
8 am – 5 pm
Monday through Friday

Please stop by and take a look.

Daily Painting, “Fresh Air & Sunshine,” contemporary landscape with tree

© Carolee Clark, "Fresh Air & Sunshine," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Fresh Air & Sunshine”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Natural Companions,” contemporary tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Natural Companions," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Natural Companions”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

To me walking alone in the forest is one of the most soothing, calming and refreshing things we can do.  It is almost as though the trees act as a sponge taking all of the stress out of one’s body.

Daily Painting, “Buds & Blossoms, contemporary urban scene

© Carolee Clark, "Buds & Blossoms," 10" x 10", acrylic

Buds & Blossoms   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting, “Release,” contemporary landscape

© Carolee Clark, "Release," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Release”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

I’ve been working on a painting (different … not this one) for two days and I’m not nearly finished.  It may never be finished as it may never work.  It is a self portrait for a painting challenge.  I don’t enjoy having my photo taken, nor do I have much pleasure in doing portraits of any kind, let alone my own.  Perhaps this is why I am struggling.

Hence, “Release.”  It was a totally, purely pleasurable application of paint on canvas.

Daily Painting, “Three Trees,” contemporary abstracted tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Three Trees," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Three Trees”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

This is a submission for the Virtual Paint Out blog. Their area of concentration this month is Romania.

Daily Painting, “Near Golden,” contemporary landscape with aspen trees

© Carolee Clark, "Near Golden," 10" x10", acrylic

“Near Golden”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – “Biodiversity” – contemporary landscape with aspens

© Carolee Clark, "Biodiversity," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Biodiversity”    sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

Daily Painting – “Aspen Trees” – contemporary landscape tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Aspen Trees," 10" x 10", acrylic

“Aspen Trees”   sold
by Carolee Clark
10″ x 10″
acrylic on wrapped canvas

I had to do the painting from yesterday over again as it really didn’t feel like my work … even though I watched myself paint it. 

This was done from a photograph provided by Pam on the Painting Challenge blog.

Painting – “Backyard Apple Tree” – contemporary tree painting

© Carolee Clark, "Backyard Apple Tree," 20" x 20", acrylic

“Backyard Apple Tree”
by Carolee Clark
20″ x 20″
acrylic on wrapped canvas
$400  (free shipping and handling within US)

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There is an old gnarled little apple tree in the corner of our yard which has been the subject of many of my paintings.  Right now it is in great need of a good pruning …