The Forest VI · The Abstract Arboretum III · The Seasons

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.(Willa Siebert Cather)
Abstract Autumn Scene
Abstract Autumn Scene
The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours.  I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn’t crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.(D.H. Lawrence)
Abstract Autumn Trees
Abstract Autumn Trees
Now is the time of the illuminated woods… when every leaf glows like a tiny lamp.(J. Burroughs)
Four Seasons
Four Seasons
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.(Stanley Horowitz)
Four Seasons II
Four Seasons II
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.(E. E. Cummings)
A bit of advice, don’t copy nature too closely.  Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it and concentrate on what you will create as a result.(Paul Gauguin)