spring in full spring

Everything is green, and the green is covering up the sky. It's hiding the million branches and creating large mass of volume, and casts bigger shadows. It filters the light, gives green ambiance everywhere under its canopy.



I stopped at these maples at Deer Lake, they reminded me of the landscape of Forêt de Fontainebleau, that drew the Barbizon painters as well as Monet in his early career.

Thinking about Forest Fontainebleau - oil on panel - 9" x 12"

I did the same view here this past winter at the Burnaby mountain park. It was foggy and it was the only way I could have painted it.

Ainu totem poles in spring - oil on panel - 6" x 8"