I will introduce you to my place of power in this landscape painting art. I called this painting "The secret garden".
The centrepiece of the landscape painting composition is the magic old ficus tree. A wonderful pond with ducks in the shade of this tree creates the utterly charming feeling that you find yourself in an enchanted garden where time has stood still. I've only ever felt so free and totally in touch with nature before, except when I'm on horseback.
Sicily gives me a lot of inspiration for beautiful tree paintings. Among the Mediterranean tree painting ideas that I absolutely had to paint on canvas, this ficus was among the first. A unique centuries-old tree whose roots are not only mightily embedded in the soil but also dangling from its branches.
Of course, while creating the painting, the question became how to paint the pond to convey the enchanting atmosphere but not take away the main focus from my magic tree. I hope I have managed to convey in the colourful tree painting all the phenomenal power and monumentality of this old ficus.
For the ducks in a pond painting and painting a pond, I used transparent oil painting techniques.
I think this botanical garden painting will take an important place in my collection of special magic Sicilian places.
Original oil painting.
The colours of the photo might be a little bit different from the original painting.
The painting is signed by me from the front.
The artwork has a hanging system allowing it to be fixed on a wall, sides are painted.
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