If you've Wondered HOW to paint bare Winter trees...

I am in the writing of my second book, this one

tentatively titled-  "Painterly Realism- Less IS More!"

and what I will include and have been working on

often comes out in what kind of questions artists

online have asked me over the years.

Today was just one of those days, an artist looking

for insights on how to go about painting winter

trees...and in my assisting this artist, I get quite a 

bit into specific strategies,one I compare to a 

magician's slight of hand technique...where you

employ compositional design to draw the eye one

specific area thus allowing you to "get away with"

(like the magician) the trick...the suggestion of a

thing. 

Used a number of my paintings to talk about such

things, devices and tricks...this one of them, a study

of a lone tree here in northern Wisconsin

I'll give you a link here if you are interested...and you 

canopt to read the whole thread if you would care to...

postedon the virtual artist's community, 

Wetcanvas.com where I have long been the moderator 

of a good number of its forums-

Painting Bare...winter trees...

I think it will be food for thought, and perhaps even 

an idea what you can expect from my newer book when 

completed.