Sparkling Canopy | A Million Green and Yellow Leaves Overhead

Here is “Sparkling Canopy.”

The trees shown in this painting are red alders, which are native to the Pacific Northwest.

In the foreground, the leaves closest to us have distinct shapes, with the veins of the leaves visible in some of the leaves.

As we look higher up into the distance of the tree canopy, the individual leaves become fuzzier and fade to soft masses of green and yellow up in the sunlight of the sky.

The bright white sunlight playing across the countless leaves gives the painting a feeling of movement, like the light is glittering and winking across the canvas, shifting like a spotlight hitting sequins.

A thick forest is visually complicated, with many small shapes of branches and leaves overlapping, bits of light and shadow constantly shifting. But there is also an overall order to it, with the trees all reaching in the same direction, into the sky, the tree canopies framing pieces of open sky overhead, the branches fanning out in repeated patterns.

The details in this painting draw you in, making you feel like you’re standing right there in the dappled sunlight.

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