This week it was clear that the painting that I wanted to do involved sycamores.  The America’s East Coast has the beautiful fall foliage of the maple trees.  Here in California, we get the more subtle golden orange colors of the majestic sycamores.  In the last few weeks, sycamores have started to turn.

As you may have noticed, these paintings are in a 1:2 format (they measure 6 x 12 inches).  I have been invited to participate in a small paintings show at the Debra Huse Gallery on Balboa Island, (all the paintings must have these dimensions).  It will be very interesting to see how other artists tackle both this small size and the interesting shape.

The light colored sycamore trunks have beautiful cool colors.  If I accentuate the blues of the trunks, I can more easily reveal the orange of the autumn leaves.

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