I’ve been having fun with recycled unsanded wood panels. My contractor saves wood scraps and cuts them the sizes I use. I love the texture, lines and knots in the wood.

This painting is an example. One of my favorite landscape situations is strong backlit trees. They are more difficult for me than frontal or side light. Getting that halo around them is difficult to do without exposing too much of the texture. It is easy to do flat dark tree trunks but they look fake. Getting just enough texture in the tree trunks, and variety in the light behind them is the challenge. This one is pretty abstract but it was great fun!

Country painters love to learn……