Loving autumn and its transient beauty

I have been getting back into painting autumn after a late summer break. I am enjoying the colours and the fast changes in how the natural world around me looks and feels at this time of year. Deciduous trees in autumn make the letting go of summer’s leaves such a beautiful experience.

I have been experimenting a bit in my paintings of this autumn. My experimentation was triggered by my first October painting where I really liked what I had expected to be my underpainting of a scene in one of my favourite parts of the park.

Big Sketches

After some consideration, I decided to stop and move on to the next one and have kept doing that over the past week or so. So now I have several A2 paintings that are like big pages in my sketchbook.  I think perhaps this is a good way of catching the transience of autumn. The leaves change colour and are dropped in such a short period of time. Every day the scene changes. So a series of sketches seems an ideal way to capture its essence.

I’m not sure yet whether or not I will leave all these sketches as they are or go back and “finish” some or all of them.  For now I’m simply enjoying one of my favourite times of year.

Come back next month and see what else I do in Autumn.