Abstract Landscape Painting

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

Here’s the final painting.  Very angular and abrupt – the only curves are in the trunks of the glowing trees. It is very reminiscent of the forest on that afternoon, the colours were striking and the area felt closed and intimidating.

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

The last bit of the dark background trees is in. It’s turning into kind of a moody mosaic – lol. I’m not sure I would want to go walking here alone, but I do love the colours.

Incandescence abstract landscape painting forest burgandy

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

I have completed the last of the foreground trees.  They are so nonchalant in their glow – lol. There are a few more trees farther back in the woods and more of the underbrush to do. This painting has come out very angular, I think in part because the plants are dead and there are no sinuous stems and entwining leaves. Everything is straight edges and muted reds and purples.

While I love painting in step with the seasons, I’m glad my next painting is summer and green.

Contemporary fine art abstract painting forest woods purple red patterns

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

I feel very Klimt with this one. All the squares and rectangles – all I need is a little gold leaf.

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

Now on to one of the softly glowing trees. Set against a background of burgandy and pumpkin, the yellows and purples in the trunk really do seem lit from within…

I had originally planned this to be a 12 x 16 inch painting, but once I started the sketch I realized that it needed to be bigger. And maybe 18 x 24 isn’t big enough either!

Incandescence trees forest dark purple autumn day by Mandy Budan.

Incandescence – 18 x 24 inches – acrylic on wood panel – reserved for Mayberry

We were walking though the woods a few weeks ago, looking for hidden tupperware containers of tiny bounty (geocaching – lol) when I came upon these trees – aspens I’m pretty sure.

And they were just glowing! On fire but with a delicate pale light. Bereft of leaves, stark against the dark slates and rusts of the background forest, these trees stood softly lit from within. The afternoon was gray and sunless and yet here they were, glowing. Wow. A mute reminder of why I paint…

trees forest aspen autumn landscape by Mandy Budan