Abstract Landscape Painting

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

And a little more… I’m starting to show some of the background trees and shrubs now. There are some lighter spots where the sun manages to punch through, but overall it is still really dark and shaded.

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

A little more work done. I’m having a hard time showing the purples and reds of the trunk. I think this one might be a bear to make into a reproduction print. But it’s fun anyways.

Abstract landscape painting Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

Some more work on the dark forest floor. Lots of deep blue and green shadows. Only tiny expeditions of sunlight make it as far as the ground and they are quickly swallowed up by the urgent growth.

Abstract landscape painting forest floor by Mandy Budan

There’s a very nice article about me in my local paper. It’s written by another artist – obviously mutli-talented – Allan O’Marra. You can see his fine art here.

And here’s link to the article.

Thanks Allan!

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

It’s dark on the forest floor – not a lot of sunlight gets down here. Even so there is a riot of blues, greens, purples and reds…

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

I can start to see the undergrowth now, bits of sunlight poking through the dense tangle. So far most of it is in shadow, but for me this painting is all about the light. The light finding its way through the brush, or bouncing off an upturned leaf and later the light coming through the branches of the immense pine.

Kaleidoscope – 30 x 60  – Acrylic on Wood – Reserved for Mayberry Fine Art

I have started my 60 x 30. Whose crazy idea was this anyway? Oh yeah, mine – lol. There’s a lot more contortionism involved than I thought there would be. (That sounds like more fun than it actually is )

Thanks to my 4 foot ceilings (k maybe 4 and a half), I can’t move the bottom of the painting more than 2 feet or so from the floor, so to get to those lower areas I spend too much time on my unrelenting cement floor. And I can’t just grab the panel, flip it around and work on a tricky bit with the painting on my knees. (I could try but I’m sure I would take out a computer monitor or a lamp or something.)

I can’t wait ’til it’s time to do the top. I’m going to have to stand on a stool – lol.

Summer, Lake of Bays – 18 x 24 Acrylic on Wood – Commission

It’s done! The sky is a quiet and pale canopy over the strong greens of the forest and the purple-blues of the water.  A perfect summer day.

Lake of Bays, Ontario, Canada landscape painting

Summer, Lake of Bays – 18 x 24 Acrylic on Wood – Commission

I have completed the forest now – yay! I’m very pleased with the way the trees fade back into the distance and yet don’t lose their exuberance. A very quiet sky is to come…

Abstract landscape painting work in progress

Summer, Lake of Bays – 18 x 24 Acrylic on Wood – Commission

I’ve finished the Lake now and can move on to the woods in the back. I can’t remember where we were exactly when we got this shot – I really want to keep better records, but these road trips are just a whirlwind of bumpy back roads and chasing the light.

Abstract landscape painting, Lake of Bays, Ontario, Summer