18x18 Acrylic on canvas

Piece is framed in a black canvas frame.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Henry David Thoreau

The way light hits foliage is incredible nuanced and fun to paint. There is a lot of improvisation that goes on with color as long as values can be matched with the subject, and light shines in the correct places.