Winter Wonderland

Haven't done so many paintings over Christmas too busy eating chocolate I guess. Although I did paint rather too many Clementines just before Christmas and haven't put them all up since I thought it might look a bit obsessive. However I've also been doing some video and photography over the Christmas period which is another art form I enjoy. I don't normally put my videos in my painting blog. But I was quite pleased with this one of the Winter Wonderland here in Cardiff and I think it kind of relates to some of my painting to.

Tree and Roof in Winter 4.5ins x 6ins Oil on Board

This is a painting of a tree I can see growing above the houses from my front window, well it's actually to the side, but I have a sort of window bay and I can see this tree as I write this entry in my Blog, I dare say it's on Richmond Road.

Sometimes you get a really nice sky behind this tree. I loved the way there was a mixture of cool blue, purple and this mad yellow blue which would be a totally impossible colour if it were not seen in context. I mean it looks yellow and it looks blue and it doesn't look green. It's a colour that could only exist in a sky, or a painting of a sky. Almost like a new colour that seems to break all the rules of colour theory, quite amazing when you think about it a contradiction that just should not be, and yet there it is just like magic. :)