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This is the painting now. I have re-applied a very dark green background for the trees. Why did I bother putting in all that red-orange, you ask? It is there, it is just not consciously visible. Like nature*, a painting has underlying colors to give strength, body and impact to the ones on the surface.
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A portrait of the painter as an old pirate.
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Making a nice green ... out of red, yellow and blue ... ah the magic!
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Yes, blue and yellow make green, but it is not nature's green yet!
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All these tones appear in the painting, in what is technically known as "the central blob of color", the aspen leaves.
*in nature, leaves are red under all that green. In the fall, the green is stripped away to reveal nature's underpainting!
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