Description: "Sumac" is week #45 of my "year of painting" series.(2003-2004)
Here is the journal entry that goes with the painting.
"When we were golfing up in Northern Michigan a few weeks ago (at Champion Hill, in Honor)...along one of the fairways, there was a large spot of Sumac that had decided to turn orange already!!! The color was wonderful against the blue spruce trees so I snapped a picture and that's the reference image I used for this week's painting....I also used a wax resist method that I kinda liked..... I painted the base washes..(let them dry completely) ....then used one of the soft clear wax crayons that come with Easter egg coloring kits...(she who never throws anything away :-) ) and covered some of the nice bright oranges and the soft blue green spruce branches...It was kind of tricky...since you can't really see what your doing...it's a clear crayon...but it
makes it really fun when you put the darker washes in....(like secret agent code )..the lines magically appear!...I know ...I know.... I'm very easily amused"
"Sumac" is matted and framed. The painting is "floated" onto acid free matboard then matted and framed with a plain, natural wood frame with acrylic glazing.
The painting is 7.5 x 7.5 inches
The framed painting is 15 x 15 inches.
