Path in the Garden

This is a painting that I finished the summer of 2007.  I painted it from life at Sibley Park in Mankato, Minnesota.   This park has supplied me with all of my images since 2004.    

I really liked the vertical format and the layered space.  It was something I hadn't done yet.  I usually worked on it from 8:30- 11:00 am until the sun changed the light too much.  I probably worked about 2 weeks every morning on it. The garden peaks around the third week of July and then starts to die.  So this is the garden at its peak.  It actually led me to paint several vertical paintings since then.

Path in the Garden    2007  oil on linen      48" X 24"