DANCING UNDER MY FAVORITE TREE
Dancing Under my Favorite Tree” - completed 2022
36” x 72” | Each piece is 36” x 36”
I adore trees. One of my favorite things on earth. I love the way the colors and light shine trough the leaves, dancing in a layered and dappled effect. This is what I tried to portray in “Dancing Under My Favorite Tree.”
“The dancing figure that showed up in the left panel happened completely organically, without intention.”
I started by laying the two canvases, side by side, flat on table. After drawing out a rough tree shape with charcoal, I used acrylic texture to create the rough form. Then, I began applying colors and got happy and excited; and stopped remembering to take photos of the process. That’s the problem with some of my favorite paintings…I get so consumed by their creation that I neglect to document how they were born. But this I can tell you….lots of layers, gold and copper leaf, and Artresin were involved.
Rough tree shape drawn with charcoal.
I only knew this was going to be an abstract tree with bold colors so the sketch above was the only map.
I listen to books a lot, sometimes I listen to shows (for the recent vineyard mural I was all about the tv show Yellowstone). For this piece, I was listening to “A Carnival of Snackery” by David Sedaris, one of my all-time favorite authors. Music is generally saved for going running or my long road trips to shows.
There is a brushy, painterly, thick layer of gloss varnish on these…I like the additional movement that the thick shine adds to the final effect. The thin lines of shine remind me of flying insects or birds caught in a slow exposure photograph.
The varnish dries fast but during the process I use slow drying acrylics and also resin in between layers. The slow dry acrylics can sometimes take overnight and the resin needs 24 hours. This painting is weeks in the making, over all.
The 1.5” edges of the canvases are painted a deep warm gold and bronze. Haven’t weighed them yet but I would guess 8-10 pounds each. I would recommend hanging them no more than 2” apart, perhaps just one. I would not separate them.
Dancing Under my Favorite Tree” - completed 2022 by Christine Adele Moore
36” x 72” | Each piece is 36” x 36”
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