The Landscape Consumers

Time for another palette cleanser! In art history there have been a lot of famous landscape painters like the French impressionists and the Canadian group of seven for example, but landscape painting goes back for thousands of years. Asian and European artists were painting landscapes, and perhaps African artists were the first with cave art dating back tens of thousands of years. It occurred to me that landscape painters, including myself, consume the landscape with our eyes, and turn it into a painting with our brush. This abstract painting was loosely based on the concept, where the eyes are the tentacles in the sky, which are vacuuming up an abstract tree. A half-inch filbert brush was used for most of the painting, with a number 4 for detail. The yellow pond in the middle was inspired by the sulfur lakes which I featured in a 'world inspired landscapes' Ethiopia edition.
 

The Landscape Consumers, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, July 2022 (No. 3048b)