February 28th, 2012
Cox Reservation, Essex, MA
Oil on Canvas, 12 x 16 in
(sold)

What’s funny about this one is that it didn’t occur to me until I had gotten home and seen Saturday’s painting that Tuesday’s was of basically the identical scene. There was this solemn grace in the stand and tangle of branches to the left of the puddle that I didn’t feel I’d captured on Sat and wanted to try again. Like many things in nature, those branches and stems reminded me of a cathedral, the colours, the arches, the lines. I wouldn’t say I did them any justice in this either. Perhaps should have left out the background.