Description
paintings – Little Tree – a dark crown on plaster
Wall art roots one dark tree at the exact centre of a cream-white worked ground and runs a turquoise band under it: painting on canvas that looks like old cracked plaster from close to and like a quiet landscape from further back.
Technique and texture
The ground is the most worked part of the picture: laid thick, smoothed and then combed out into whorls and cracks that throw shadows of their own. The tree is the opposite, painted thin with a dry, almost dabbing stroke that breaks the foliage into small dots. The turquoise band at the foot went on wet and leaves runs.
The motif
The tree stands exactly at the centre, its trunk thin and straight, its crown round and dense with thinner edges. The ground is cream-white with ochre and brown veins winding through it like cracks. At the foot a turquoise band appears and passes into ochre brown toward the right; the shadow of the tree falls across it as a dark horizontal stroke.
Setting and placement
A calm, light picture for a bedroom, a hallway or a reading corner. The cream ground agrees with white and sandy walls, and the turquoise band gives the room its one cool note. The tree sits dead centre, so the wall around it should be plain enough to leave that symmetry alone.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thickly laid combed plaster ground, dry dabbed foliage, wet turquoise band with runs
- Palette: cream-white, ochre, brown, turquoise, black
- Ideal for: bedrooms, hallways, reading corners
- Character: quiet, cracked, centred
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Little Tree – sizes, stretcher, frame
The Little Tree painting is made in 14 sizes, from 40 x 48 to 180 x 215 cm. A narrow wall beside an armchair or in a reading corner needs only 40 x 48 cm, while above a 160 cm bed the dark crown on its plaster ground can grow to 110 x 130 cm, close to two thirds of the bed width. On a tall stairwell wall the upright tree holds well at 130 x 155 or 140 x 165 cm.
In the photograph Little Tree hangs in an optional black frame on a sand-grey wall, above a grey-blue armchair beside a potted plant. The combed cream plaster and turquoise band are hand-painted, the tree dabbed with a dry brush, and nothing is printed. With YES under Stretcher the canvas with the tree comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. The black frame is not part of the painting, and the Frame menu opens at Without frame. Little Tree is delivered in 15–45 days.
Questions about Little Tree
Which size of Little Tree goes above a bed?
Above a 160 cm bed we suggest 110 x 130 cm, and above a wider bed 130 x 155 cm, so the centred tree keeps its symmetry.
Is the black frame included with Little Tree?
The frame for Little Tree is optional. The Frame menu starts at Without frame, and a black or other frame is added if you want one.
Does Little Tree arrive ready to hang?
Yes, once you select YES under Stretcher, the cream canvas with its dark tree is stretched on a wooden stretcher, so it goes up at once.
