Here is “Deep Roots and Milky Way,” the newest addition to my Tree of Life series.
![Deep Roots and Milky Way. 16″ x 12″, Oil on Canvas, © 2016 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Deep-Roots-and-Milky-Way.jpg)
This is a commissioned piece, and my client requested that I create a new image with the sky similar to the sky in my painting, Lone Tree and Milky Way:
![Lone Tree and Milky Way. 16″ x 16″, Oil on Wood, © Cedar Lee 2013](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/lone-tree-and-milky-way.jpg)
And a tree with roots similar to those in my painting, Gilded Breeze:
![Gilded Breeze. 16″ x 12″, Oil on Canvas, © 2016 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Gilded-Breeze.jpg)
This presented a fun challenge! For reference again, here’s what I ended up with:
![Deep Roots and Milky Way. 16″ x 12″, Oil on Canvas, © 2016 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Deep-Roots-and-Milky-Way.jpg)
In this time lapse video from a day’s work in my studio, you can see me working on this painting (I tone some small wood panels first–skip to 0:23 if you are impatient):
Side-view:
![Deep Roots and Milky Way. 16″ x 12″, Oil on Canvas, © 2016 Cedar Lee](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Deep-Roots-and-Milky-Way2.jpg)