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Reader Submissions: Painting Project: Inside a Forest

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The challenge of painting project is to paint a scene inside a forest, plantation, or woodland. It can be in any style except pure abstract; any medium (oils, watercolor, etc); any size you wish; painted from life or imagination. Read the Project Instructions...

Status: Open to submissions.

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View of Tokai Forest by Patricia Jessup

This painting was based on a photograph taken of the Tokai Forest in one of the outlying suburbs of Cape Town. Strolling through these rambling woods in the early hours of a late summer's day was a m…More

Big Birch Trees by Susan laCount

I saw these trees in Kenebunk, Maine over the Thanksgiving holiday. It took me back to my child hood growing up in Illinois. I love these trees. I first painted these on a 16 x 20 inch canvas, then d…More

Into the Pines by Bev

Painted with a large brush and palette knife. I found this photo among my photos I had taken years ago for a property I was selling. I needed a change so decided to use a large brush and had the pain…More

A Walk in the Woods by LesleyArt

This painting was done from a reference photo taken on an autumnal day walking through a wood. I was inspired by the way the light was filtering down through the trees to make patterns on the leaf-co…More

Inside the Forest by Bearc

This piece was based on a reference photo taken in a pine forest in the mountains of Southern California. I left off all the needles, so the trees look a little like they've just been through a fores…More

Inside a Forest by Vicki

Here in Overland Park, Kansas are many trails through trees and streams. I wanted to depict the aftermath of winter with barren branches and scraggly twisted limbs. The sun shines between many bunche…More

Walk up to Sharplin Falls by Alanjcollins

Black beech so called are because there is a consuming relationship of a fungus growing on the trees and a insect drills into the tree and sucks the sap, and a fungus grows on the waste products of t…More

Lungegaard by Kristiane Eikeland

Lately I´ve been admiring Leonid Afremov's paintings, and wanted to try a similar look. I´ve used a flat paintbrush instead of a palette knife. I also wanted the colors to be soft and cold,…More

Dartmoor Glade by Kirinis

This painting is from a phot0graph that I took on Dartmoor (near Newbridge, UK). Although only about a mile from a main carpark, this glade is usually very peaceful with few people ever passing throu…More

From the Redwood Forests by Connlys

This painting is from a photo that I took in northern California three years ago and as soon as I saw the project I knew that this was the scene to paint. You might think that this was deep in the fo…More

Green Life Tree by Eds

I used the tree photo reference Wild Currant tree. This tree gives me inspiration and serenity of the scenario. It’s hard to paint the leaves and branches. So I try my best to used the fun brus…More

Ozark Forest by Lee House

Live near the Ozark Forests and have driven through them many times. The variety of trees is abundant so is the undergrowth. Initially wanted to paint the forest and a stream, but the forests as thou…More

Inside a Forest by UKP

I just thought of capturing the "disorderliness" of the inside of a forest. And then, the unexpected visuals one can come across as one goes deeper into a forest. The inspiration came from the contes…More

Autumn Morning by Rose

I haven't done any art in over a decade and I previously was more of an illustrator than a painter. It was REALLY hard for me to sit down and paint, as painting is not something I'm good at and I ten…More

Dragon Forest by ARoss

This is my second painting and first attempt at a landscape. The painting is based on photos of dragon's blood trees, but not on any one particular photograph. I am fairly pleased at the outcome but …More

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