Saturday, July 31, 2010

Silent Guardians

Silent Guardians
24" X 37"
Original Oil
This painting reminds me of my last trip to Africa. I was in the northern part of Tanzania. The late afternoon sun was a brilliant fire ball and its light seemed to make the baobabs glow. One tree in particular just lit up. That tree didn't work for this painting, but I used another baobab and "transferred" that special light to it. I cropped the main tree because it appeared bigger when you didn't see all of it.
This will be my last African painting for a while since I need to get some commissions done and more North American paintings completed for upcoming shows. A sunset piece seems a fitting place to end this run of African paintings.

2 comments:

Terry Miller said...

Oh my, this really turned out quite lovely. Reminds me too, of the area around Tarangire. Oh, to be back there in the late afternoon! My heart aches.

Terry Miller said...

PS: Really like the page makeover too!