Aspen Woods

by Jeanette French

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$195

Dimensions

11.000 x 15.000 inches

Title

Aspen Woods

Artist

Jeanette French

Medium

Painting - Cold Wax And Oil On Board

Description

Aspen Woods is a cold wax and oil painting mounted on a cradle board. For this type of painting, cold wax was mixed with oil paint and applied with a palette knife, scraper, and various other mark-making tools. This creates a painting with texture somewhere between an oil painting and an encaustic painting. The cold wax is a mix of beeswax, gamsol and a small amount of alkyd resin. The gamsol will evaporate out of the medium, allowing the wax to harden to the density of a beeswax candle.
Golden aspens in the fading light of autumn flutter like gold coins and whisper in the slightest breeze. A deciduous native of the high country, the aspen is rarely found below 1500 feet in elevation. Common names for this tall, rapidly growing tree include quaking aspen, trembling aspen and trembling popular. The trees and known for their distinctive mature bark, smooth and pale with black knots, and for their rounded leaves, that turn bright yellow and golden in the fall.
Energetically, aspen groves are symbols for we are one, the connection of all life forms. The individual trees are actually members a colony that share a single root structure. All of the trees in a colony have identical or clone characteristics and are actually a part of one organism. An aspen colony known as Pando is considered the oldest living organism at about 80,000 years of age.
Jeanette French, paintings, photographs, canvas prints framed prints, metallic prints, acrylic prints, greeting cards, gift cards, fine art.
Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and gift for the earth, hence the name of my art business, For the Earth. My mother painted in oils when I was young and encouraged my own drawing, painting and handcrafting in all forms. My father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result of these loving influences, I am a lifelong student of both mediums. I am grateful to my wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson, for training my eye and technique. I hope you will enjoy this image as much as I enjoyed its creation. More gifts for the earth can be found at this website, jeanette-french.pixels.com.

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April 11th, 2022

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