April 8th-9th, 2013
Cox Reservation, Essex Greenbelt, Essex MA
Oil on Canvas, 16 x 22 in

This is the penultimate picture of the painting – I’ve changed a few things since I took this, will re take soon. Yesterday was a beautiful warm day, I had a few hours in the afternoon to paint. I stood by a cluster of trees that caught my eye with their strange, shaggy bark. I have since learned they are Shaggy Bark, or Shagbark Hemlocks. I liked them because they reminded me somehow of the Muppets.