Green paintings

I am looking at green paintings. It started when I jumped into learning to paint with oils as a side quest on my painting journey. I found that my color palette started to shift with oils because of the unique way that oil gets reworked. Oils dry over days and weeks, not hours like my familiar acrylics and water-based inks.

Green paintings abound through the art history canon. The lush dark green paintings of forests and gardens abound. And I love that the human eye can see more shades of green than any other color. It is proof that we evolved to look at and understand so much nuance in the landscape. Now that I am painting with oils my palette is growing and expanding from my usual marine greens and turquoises into chartreuse and seafoam. Some really amazing green paintings here include: Klimt, Gorky, Larsen, Ernst, Jonson, and Galovin.