Autumnal Painting Size:24"x36" stone and muted earth tones

stone and muted earth tones

giving the whole picture the happy storybook look of a page from a well-loved children's tale

the flattened folk-art perspective turning the whole hillside into a storybook tapestry of communal winter joy

catching real light and soft shadow across the gentle slope

Flecks and spatters of paint fly from the animal in every direction

Autumnal Painting Size:24"x36" stone and muted earth tonesPale trunked birches rise along a sunlit forest track, their slender white stems set against a canopy that burns gold and tawny orange overhead. Thick palette knife strokes build the leaf littered ground into ridges of ochre, rust and warm brown, catching real light and soft shadow across the gentle slope. A patch of clear blue sky breaks through the foliage at the very top, lending the scene crispness, air and a sense of a fresh afternoon. The