Warm sunny weather has continued to the time of this writing. The skies have been sparkling, clear to partly cloudy for the most part. By now, since the equinox, sunlight slants more, slicing through the bright yellows and orange-reds of almost all trees and shrubs. Black walnuts stay green longer, and of course so do conifers, dotting the otherwise bright swathes of color along Gray's Lake.
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| "North Shore, Autumn," oil on panel, 9x12 |
I spent two days a couple of weeks ago painting "North Shore, Autumn" standing almost on the same spot on the shore as I when painting not long ago. The big tree in the foreground is bright yellow with flashing highlights, the unmown grasses alongshore have become golden brown, and the distant trees are now a molten yellow-gold in places. The light has changed in two weeks so that it looks a bit yellow, too. Although we all know that cold weather and the rest are coming, we can bask in these few days of gold.
It's been a privilege to spend time studying these things.
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