I did this one in gouache using the camel oil brush, and the sheer simplicity of the image appealed to me, the gentle curves of the tree rival that of any sculptor, nature is the greatest artist, and this mere mortal can only attempt a simplistic impression of what I see, but I derive great pleasure in doing so.
children paint because they don't know they can't - so what happens as we become adults? - Me
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some, and to do it by every artifice possible - truer than the truth. - Jean Anouilh 1910-87