Branford Park in Late Autumn

This will be the last autumn painting from Branford Park this year. It has been a wonderful season painting in the park. I haven't counted, but I must have completed well over a dozen autumn paintings. It is the best time of the year to paint. You can use the whole palette. All those gorgeous reds, oranges and yellows. Yum.

Winter has its own joys. I love the restricted palette that comes with the shorter days, together with the raking light and its strong modelling effect, not to mention the cool blues and greens of frost and snow working against the warm Sienna's and Umbers of the bare rocks and trees.

I have all that to look forward to over the next few months. In the meantime I'm off to Bali for my daughter's wedding. Wild tropic colours and exotic subject matter. The next couple of weeks will be awesome. Two more days in NZ painting and then away to the tropical sun...



15121. "Branford Park in Late Autumn". Oil on panel. 8x10 in. $150

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