Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Batik is a mixed media by Conni Schaftenaar which was uploaded on November 13th, 2022.
Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Batik
Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Watercolor Watercolor and Ink Batik on rice paper, by Conni Schaftenaar
I recently saw this sycamore tree... more
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Title
Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Batik
Artist
Conni Schaftenaar
Medium
Mixed Media - Watercolor And Ink On Rice Paper
Description
Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Watercolor Watercolor and Ink Batik on rice paper, by Conni Schaftenaar
I recently saw this sycamore tree standing at the edge of a soybean field near where I live. I took a bunch of photos, then I used Photoshop to create my "moon behind the tree look" for reference (that digital collage is also on my gallery - I created that simply to be my reference photo for this painting, but liked it as a photo/digital enough that I posted that one, too!).
The basic scene is drawn with a Micron pen on the rice paper. This is a very experimental piece for me in that I tried a different approach to the wax resist. Getting fine lines of hot wax onto my drawing usually proves frustrating, with blobs at the beginning of the stroke, etc. I decided to try using my wax-based Prismacolor pencils to create much of the resist on the tree branches, and it worked!!! I was very excited, because the pencils are much easier to control for me! I used a couple of pale colors to fill in all the tree branches, I placed leaves all around the top of the tree and put dots of actual hot wax on those, and fully hot-waxed the moon area. Then many (probably 5-6) washes of my colors on the sky area and the field/foreground area before getting the depth of colors I wanted. After all was dry and wax ironed off, I used colored pencils and pastel pencils to produce some contrasts in a few places on top of the watercolor.
1st place win in the Your Very Best 3 contest, February 2023
2nd place tie in the HIGHLY UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Art contest, November 2023
GA's Choice, ARTIST BUZzz contest, February 2024
Featured in:
The ARTIST BUZzz, November 2022
Lyrical Trees Vibrant Wavelengths of Color, November 2022
Art For the Cafe or Restaurant, November 2022
Four Seasons, November 2022
Hand Created Artwork Only, November 2022
Created By My Hands, November 2022
Mix Your Media, November 2022
Art District, November 2022
Art - It Is Good For You, November 2022
Vertical Images, November 2022
Non Photography, November 2022
Your Best Work, November 2022
PEN and INK PLUS, March 2023
Mixed Media Art, August 2023
Beautiful Watercolors Weekly Spotlight Artist, December 8 2023
Feature Artist of Distinction, The ARTIST BUZzz, February 2024
Paintings Drawings Sketches Hand Created Artwork, February 2024
Intent of the Artist, February 2024
The Art Workshop, February 2024
For the ART of It, February 2024
Dedicated Hand Painted Art Only, February 2024
Pretty in Pink Blue or Purple, February 2024
Uploaded
November 13th, 2022
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Comments (120)
Gary F Richards
Spectacular Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! Congratulations on your beautiful moving Features! F/L
Gary F Richards
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… THE ARTIST BUZZZ-FEBRUARY 2024 -YOUR PORTFOLIO THE...! F/L
Lynn Raizel Lane
🎨 Congrats! FAA Group, DEDICATED HAND PAINTED ONLY ART is proudly honoring your artwork with a FEATURE of it on our Home Page! Your exceptional creativity brings joy to the art community. Please showcase this image on the group's Discussion Page (Group Featured Images ARCHIVE 2024) to increase your exposure and attract art collectors. Additionally, your fantastic artwork will be included in Admin, Lynn Raizel Lane's personal collection of Favorites for further recognition. Thank you for sharing, Conni ❤
Conni Schaftenaar replied:
thanks so much, Lynn! nice honor to be in your personal collection as well!
Conni Schaftenaar
thanks to the group Paintings Drawings Sketches Hand Created Artwork for the feature on 2/22/2024!
Beverley Ismail
Congratulations Conni on your GA feature contest winner..an enchanting painting. Love the delicate leaf detailing against the darkness.
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS!! CONNI, YOU are awarded: SPECIAL 🎨🐝🏆GA FEATURE ARTIST of DISTINCTION 🥁👏🏻. Please feel free to post your Special Feature, selected for its “BIG BUZzz CONTEST APPEAL” in the ARTIST BUZzz GROUP Features and SPECIAL FEATUREs 2024 Archive Thread! BRAVO!
Laurel Adams
CONGRATULATIONS!! CONNI, You, are the 👏🏻🥁 GAs CHOICE- Artist BUZzz FEB 2024 contest AWARD WINNER for -“Your Portfolio Theme- 🤩👏🏻👏🏻 which featured 234 members, 919 entries and garnered 2,139 votes! YAY!! So well deserved!..BRAVO!
Elizabeth Reich
Congratulations on your WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT ARTIST ~ featured the week of 12-9-23 in Beautiful Watercolors. Fantastic work.
Laurel Adams
Dear Conni, CONGRATS on your BW WEEKLY HOMEPAGE SPECIAL ARTIST Distinction …YAY! So well deserved!