Looking at the Sunset (Part 5)

Pencil on paper, 9 x 12.

A very hasty and, I thought at the time, unsuccessful sketch from an evening in  early June, 2009. Thought I didn’t like it, forgot about it, then found it and discovered I liked it quite a bit. I say a little more about it in my “twilight” post for 27 June 2009. This is a link in a chain of sketches working toward a description of what it’s like to paint here and how the series started.

The ‘question mark’ was for a tree I couldn’t identify until a very nice talk I had with a fellow election official on June 9th – the only G.O.P. rep who didn’t jump into the bash-fest. More about that when I get a chance, because the conversation I had with him about trees had a strong effect on all of us that day.