These are my reference pictures for my Gustav Klimt inspired landscape. I decided on doing a tree since lot's of his paintings were of trees.
These were my two sketches. Gustav Klimt is known for his symbolism so I knew I needed to incorporate some symbols into the painting. I looked at his Tree of Life and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I for inspiration for the symbols. I also really liked the curls he did in the Tree of Life so I'm using that idea in my final painting.
This is an in progress picture. I had finished doing the tree trunk and the background and I only had to do the swirls left.
This picture is from after I finished the main part of the tree. I was deciding between putting swirls around the smaller branch.