Here is “Fall Gratitude.”
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You may remember my painting entitled “Gratitude” from earlier this year, which features spring magnolia flowers.
![](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Gratitude.jpg)
This is the fall iteration of that same theme.
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Instead of spring blossoms, the feeling of bursting gratitude is conveyed here with beautiful orange maple leaves.
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In the woods near my home where I go walking almost every day, we have big-leaf maple trees that are spectacular in the fall, with gigantic leaves, some of them more than a foot across! I have always thought of maple leaves when they change colors in the fall as the quintessential “fall leaf.”
Detail: Fall Gratitude. 18″ x 36″, Acrylic on Canvas, © 2022 Cedar Lee
The beautiful sight never fails to give me a reminder of how wonderful it is to be alive on this earth.
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I finished this painting around the Thanksgiving holiday, a time to intentionally dwell on what we’re grateful for.
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In this painting, I used myself as the model, but purposely did not include my eyes or any identifying details in the painting.
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The absence of specific identifying features makes the image less of a self portrait and more of an anonymous “every woman.”
![](https://www.artbycedar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Fall-Gratitude-detail-1.jpg)
The painting is full of delicate details.
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Thus a human element is shown alongside the nature element, to illustrate the universal human emotion of gratitude for the nature that surrounds us all.
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The impact of the painting when seen from across the room is powerful, with the warm orange colors and the bright white light shining from the background.
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Contact me if you are interested in the original or a print of this painting!