This is a larger painting of one of my little abstract tree colored pencil drawings. It was a little more difficult to get it, but I haven’t used acrylic paints in a while and it ended up being fun and relaxing. I worked on it whenever I could get some time or energy and it took me about a week to get it done. I chose this Bible verse to go with it:
“Then the trees of the forest shall rejoice before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth.” — 1 Chronicles 16:33
I think that little tree looks joyful.
She is done on 20×24 stretched canvas with acrylic paints and sharpie marker. I will be varnishing her once I get the edges done. The canvas edges will be painted black so that it does not necessarily need a frame. It can be hung as is. I could not get a good straight photo of the canvas. I tried and tried, but I just could never get it straight. I even have levels on my tripod! LOL! I tried to straighten it out in my photo software. Nothing doing. So, I trimmed it with black. That is not how the canvas looks in real life. Below is what it looked like before I put that black around it in the photo.
It was too busy to appreciate the painting, so I decided to put the black around it. What do ya’ll think? I wish I didn’t have such a shaky hand and didn’t make it so sloppy, but I think it works. I like to surround paintings with black, because I think it shows up the colors much better than white. That is why I use black matting and black frames. But, what do you do? Do you like white? Do you like black? Or do you use colors for matting and/or framing?
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
who sows a field, or trains a flower,
or plants a tree, is more than all.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Virginia C. McCoy Fine Art 