Coconut Climber

by Nazima Mohammed
(Trinidad & Tobago)

This painting is 2" x 4" feet in size, Acrylics & Oils incorporated on Canvas. It took me almost a week to complete this painting.

Mixing the colors for the bark of the tree was a bit challenging as I used alot of raw oils on this area. Sometimes I would put a speck of too much black to make my greys and ended up having to wash away that mixture, and start mixing a new shade. But I managed to get it right and finished the bark in two days. The Coconut Leaves stalk was done in oils and when it dried, I worked in the green and black forming each blade of leaf some overlapping the other.

Lastly I did the man. He was an interesting subject, I mixed some dull red, yellow, black, white, on my pallet and began painting him. when I was finished I used a pinch of ochre here and there to highlight his skin tone a bit more. I am happy with my finished product, all I have to do now is get a frame for it.