Can't See The Forest For The Trees

I am still not sure I have finished this one, but I am going to post it anyway, get feedback.

It has gone through many changes. What was in my head is partly portrayed, but it changed along the way of course, we artists know how that goes. I did not have any trees to fit what I had in mind in my archives, so I made it up.

I love David Voigt's work, an Aussie artist who while I lived in Oz back in the late 90's, was doing sectional landscapes, divided with geometry.

I also did this for a long while in my watercolors, Rae's way of course, but he was the master I emulated. He also went to my college a few years before I did. Neat huh?

My tree painting was also an attempt to try this technique again, and it sure made me crazy with so many verticals. A semi abstraction if you will, not quite a full blown one though.

The difficult part is knowing when to stop adding and subtracting parts, one could go on and on, and as I said, this make the poor artist (ME) crazy!

So here is it in all it's glory, I would love comments please.

Last Stages

That's all folks!!

Middle Stages

White Water Tumble (the process)

As promised, here is the process of this painting, I hope you enjoy.
Rae

White Water Tumble

My husband once asked me "why do you do waterfalls all the time?"..

Well as you can see with my past posts, I don't all the time, however they are in my heart as is all water. Must be pretty waterlogged I guess, all that Aussie sun and surf! Not to mention my 12 years on Maui!

This one began with an abstract underlay, in fact I will post the steps after this post, just so you might see the process of the painting.

I never quite know how these will turn out, a little nervewracking, but fun just the same, makes the old heart get anxious at times. Ha ha.

Escarpment (the whole picture)

Escarpment

Escarpment began with a high horizon point in my mind, .I had this wonderful long canvas, and thought is lent itself to a very dramatic painting.
The colors, the scene, mainly out of my head, and as the painting developed, it took over my thought process, a truly ZEN feeling.

These two sections are top and bottom close ups.

I use a veiling technique over colors, to settle areas back and make only the edges of the cliff the important focus.