There are web sites out there that offer challenges which I do occasionally. This one was of a small grove of aspens. Since I have never seen aspens in person, I chose to make my trees a generic variety and concentrate my attention on the bright spot of sunshine filtering into the autumn grasses underneath. After finishing this exercise in "realist abstraction", I had the feeling that my best result was about 3/4's of the way into this painting. In other words, I kept going when I should have stopped. That is what these lessons to self are all about... learning.
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