Big Oak / Two Sessions

 I had started this just a couple days ago. My neighbors have a beauty of an oak tree on their front yard and I gaze at it often as it goes through the seasons and the way the light hits it, magnificent. That day the shadows were fantastic, the shades and shapes defined...and then, well you know... rain. Wind and rain, not great for Plein-air. 

It snuck up very quickly and I hustled before it got ugly ugly. Packed up, I went home and not fourty minutes later it was sunny and beautiful again! By that time I had moved on to other things on life's list of stuff to do. But... Today brought some nice sun and shadows and after finishing some commercial work I set up and finished "Big Oak" outside mid afternoon. 

"Big Oak" oil on board 11x14




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