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Quickie for a weekly challenge on DA's Devious Deadlines, which this week has the theme "Nice Day in May".

MyPaint + GIMP, 2hrs.
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Griatch

It must be seen great !
then is really nice

I think the tree looks great Griatch!!

Liana

Good work, Griatch!

I'd love to see you take on direct sunlight, since you do so well with lighting and shading in your images.

Thanks for the comments.

I'm not a big fan of painting trees in general; it always feels to me like too much work for relatively little return ... but doing leaves this way was an interesting experiment. Mahvin, my signature below is as direct sunlight as you can get, also some other images such as River Tunnel deal with direct beams of sunlight. Or were you referring to some special type of sun-lit image?
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Griatch

Griatch:

I guess I should think about how I say things versus what I mean. Your (beautiful) tree image has an overcast sky. What I meant about direct sunlight wasn't so much about having the sun in the scene as it was having the sun rays bouncing off all those leaves.

mahvin, Ok, I see what you mean.
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Griatch