Almost Gone (Overcast Late Fall Day)

Another good late fall painting. The house and fence are just a house in our neighborhood, notable only in that it's only really visible once all the leaves have fallen. So like in this painting. But the real focal point to me was the lone tree with yellow leaves still clinging to it. The red bush behind and to the right of it, the ivy covered tree to the left, and the barren tree with naked branches reaching for the sky in the center of the painting were also interesting to me so I tried to show their character, but I think the sole yellow tree is really what holds the painting together - if it's not there, nothing else in the painting is strong enough to be a focal point. I also had a lot of fun just piling on the grey paint for the sky. If you look closely you can see that it's spread on thickly with a palette knife in a lot of places, and the branches reaching upwards are painted into it, or scratched into it.

-ZR