Moonlit Forest 1 - A Work in Progress

Today is the last day of the Brian Atyeo workshop and the theory for the day was about the importance of the use of line and shape within a painting.

For the demonstration in addition to doing his usual tonal value sketch, he also did a small colour watercolour value sketch.

This little painting was later raffled off to the class; unfortunately I didn't win it, but the small piece was exquisite.

The painting he did was a semi abstract with the use a line and shape to create an image of a forest of birch trees on a moonlit night.

My painting isn't quite as abstract as his one was and I am using a mixture of birch and cedar trees.

I will post more on this painting as it gets closer to completion.