Acrylic.
Notes.
This is a quick acrylic landscape in my sketchbook using two big brushes, mostly focusing on the tree in the foreground. I got a bit caught up on the tree so it is less of a landscape than a study of a tree, I'm afraid.
I am quite pleasantly surprised by the effect that can be achieved just using big brushes and how much detail I can paint, it was an enjoyable and useful exercise.
I thought about what it would be like if I had used a range of brush sizes, I'm not sure it would be better, I would have been able to define some of the smaller more intricate areas and possibly give it more depth, but I think that might have taken something away from the overall impression of the tree in its setting.
Acrylic.
Notes.
I think this pear is not as successful as the tree above, it doesn't have the freedom nor the looseness of the paint strokes. Maybe it is because I was painting from life. I felt all through doing this study that I was trying to achieve with a big brush what I would do with a smaller brush.
Close up.
Two acrylic sketches.
