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birch trees

Backyard Plein Air Painting | Birch Tree Landscape Painting

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Birch Clump, 6×8″, oil on linen panel, by Jeffrey Smith
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I kept my landscape painting close to home tonight.  I took my pochade box out to the backyard.  The neighbors have a great clump of birch trees.  Perfect for one last plein air painting though I had to paint [...]

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A Touch of Color

October 7, 2008

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The above is  a small oil sketch painted on the edge of a clearing.  I wanted to play a bit more with color on this one.  Some times I fell like my paintings can loose some of the color intensity and variety as I work.  Things tend to get [...]

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Birch Forest

September 22, 2008

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Welcome to the Birch Forest! Today’s post is a oil painting sketch that I’m planning on enlarging into a bigger painting. 
I just finished making a batch of new panels, and have been anxious to try this long, narrow shape.  I think the birch trees in mass lend themselves quite [...]

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