Based on a photo of my son Philip by his wife Lisa on a trip to New York last year, I loved the view from under the pavilion of Central Park and part of Manhattan.
The wood beam network is, like buildings and skyscrapers, not as natural for my hand and eye as natural landscape, but I still enjoy creating the effort, especially combining both elements like here.
I've posted what I call a self critique detailing the making of this painting. These chronicles are very detailed, often boring to the non-artist (and most artists probably :-) accounts and reflections of the painting process, including paints and brushes used, thoughts and feelings found, and changes meant or made.
For me, one of the more useful things about critiquing some of my own work processes, has been more consciously realizing how different the creation of one work can be from the one before or subsequent. Each new work elicits new necessities of brush use or type of concentration and even enjoyment.
The type of effort and concentration, of flow and control, differ very greatly for me between that for structures and those for nature.
In this work, the switch back and forth between the folliage, the beams, and the background buildings, was an experience in itself.
