October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients and vibrating color

and vibrating color

Some wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards

The original oil painting is 16 x 20"/41 x 51cm on canvas with a gallery profile (1

and I have often painted her

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October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients and vibrating colorThe pale October sun greets this cypress in its cemetery home. I love how cypress bark gets all sorts of creases and folds, like it's recording history in its form. A crease starts and travels up the tree, becoming deeper, perhaps curving, and then shallower until it is melded into the trunk's shape, where it disappears from our view as it recedes into the tree's memory. To me, this is how history can impact any living being. This tree is great at