So I painted the scene a few times, just to see if I could work up the inspiration
to make this my new favorite landscape, replacing our backyard in New Hampshire.
This is a disappointingly small area of a 10"x20" canvas, painted several
days after my other Illinois trees painting. The sky is most of the canvas,
and has some wonderful colors... which look like nothing, scanned, unless I include
enough of the trees for the painting to make sense...and then I can't include
so much of the sky! (Catch-22! *grin*)
Anyway, this one is obviously a more realistic representation than what
I usually do, as you can tell by the white indications of tree trunk. This is
one of my son's favorite paintings, and so it will be his when he grows up and has his own house.
All original text, photos, and art are © 2001, Aisling D'Art.
At this time, we lived in townhouse condos. Plenty of narrow streets and
parking lots, but not much landscape. However, if I stood at my front door and
narrowed my vision just so, I could focus on the trees and the brook at
the end of our driveway/unit. And it was very pretty, a refreshing change after
the vistas from our first Illinois house.
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