Autumn Day

Here is my latest offering, which is an oil painting, 16 x 20 inch on a stretched canvas. This painting has tonalism features. My inspiration was a commercial I saw on T.V. in which everything was black and white except one object. I thought that was a great way to emphasize a focal point and so decided to use the same approach in this painting. Except for the one tree which has leaves in yellows, orange and reds, the entire rest of the painting was done in different values of grays using payne's gray, Davy's gray and a mixture of black ivory with titanium white. I think it worked well and it will be on Ebay next week. We will see how the customers like it!