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Zeeland, MI
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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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Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! Congratulations on your beautiful moving Features! F/L
Zeeland, MI - United States
thanks to the group Pretty in Pink Blue or Purple for the feature on 2/28/2024!
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… THE ARTIST BUZZZ-FEBRUARY 2024 -YOUR PORTFOLIO THE...! F/L
West End, NC - United States
🎨 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!
Zeeland, MI - United States
thanks to the group Paintings Drawings Sketches Hand Created Artwork for the feature on 2/22/2024!
Worcester, Wo - United Kingdom
Congratulations Conni on your GA feature contest winner..an enchanting painting. Love the delicate leaf detailing against the darkness.
Danville, KY - United States
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!
Danville, KY - United States
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!
Huntsville, AL - United States
Congratulations on your WEEKLY SPOTLIGHT ARTIST ~ featured the week of 12-9-23 in Beautiful Watercolors. Fantastic work.
Danville, KY - United States
Dear Conni, CONGRATS on your BW WEEKLY HOMEPAGE SPECIAL ARTIST Distinction …YAY! So well deserved!
Boulder, CO - United States
I just love this! The way the speckles of leaves scatter the gold throughout the upper half of the composition catches my eye right away....and that huge moon! Congratulations on your Weekly Spotlight feature in BW!
Middletown, PA - United States
A BIG CONGRATULATIONS, Conni, on being chosen again as the “Weekly Spotlight Artist” in the Beautiful Watercolors group!!! 😊
Conni Schaftenaar replied:
wow, what a nice honor, Taphath! I appreciate it, AND the Facebook group share!
Martville, NY - United States
Congratulations, Conni, on your Win in the Highly Unusual and Unique Contest for this wonderful painting! L/F
West End, NC - United States
11/23/2023 🏆 PLACED IN TOP VIRTUAL TROPHY CONTEST VOTES *CONGRATS* for HIGHLY UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL theme art contest out of 570 entries, honors go to Conni Schaftenaar for *Sycamore Tree Under A Blue Moon Batik* (via FAA Contest Organizer, Fine Artist Lynn Raizel Lane)
Conni Schaftenaar replied:
thanks, Lynn, and thanks to all who voted this to a 2nd place tie in your fun contest!
New Baltimore, MI - United States
Conni, marvelous watercolor painting "Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon Batik"! Congrats on multiple features - Mixed Media Art, Your Best Work and PEN and INK PLUS!! L/F
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Spectacular Sycamore Tree Under a Blue Moon composition, lighting, shading, excellent colors and artwork! F/L voted
Punta Gorda, FL - United States
Congratulations on your Top Finish in the contest… AUTUMN VISIONS - NO PHOTO! F/L
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