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Jan 12, 2003
Media: Oil
Size: 11x14 in
The painting was done 20 years ago, before I joined Daily Paintworks. It recently occurred to me that I should share it with the DPW audience. The painting was done shortly after taking a workshop with superior artist and instructor, the late Bill Zaner. Bill lived and taught in the Hill Country of Texas. Our en plein air work was done along the Guadalupe River, where the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, occurs. When I returned to my home at the time (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) I decided to do this painting from my memory of the area in the Texas Hill Country. Although, my hills may be a bit higher than the ones in that part of central Texas. Bald cypress occurs naturally from central Texas to New Jersey, and up the Mississippi River Valley as far as the mid-west. It's a deciduous conifer, which means, unlike most conifers, it sheds its leaves in the fall. Before doing that, the leaves turn a very pleasant red color. "Fall Cypresses" depicts the trees almost immediately before they began to lose their foliage. It's important that while bald cypress grows well on moist, well aerated soils it tolerates flooded soil conditions as shown in the painting. Soon after I did the painting I planted a couple bald cypresses in my front yard in Baton Rouge. Shortly thereafter I retired from LSU, sold the property, and moved to eastern New York. I'm told my cypresses are doing well almost 20 years later. The painting was done 20 years ago, before I joined Daily Paintworks. It recently occurred to me that I should share it with the DPW audience. The painting was done shortly after taking a workshop with superior artist and instructor, the late Bill Zaner. Bill lived and taught in the Hill Country of Texas. Our en plein air work was done along the Guadalupe River, where the bald cypress, Taxodium distichum, occurs. When I returned to my home at the time (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) I decided to do this painting from my memory of the area in the Texas Hill Country. Although, my hills may be a bit higher than the ones in that part of central Texas. Bald cypress occurs naturally from central Texas to New Jersey, and up the Mississippi River Valley as far as the mid-west. It's a deciduous conifer, which means, unlike most conifers, it sheds its leaves in the fall. Before doing that, the leaves turn a very pleasant red color. "Fall Cypresses" depicts the trees almost immediately before they began to lose their foliage. It's important that while bald cypress grows well on moist, well aerated soils it tolerates flooded soil conditions as shown in the painting. Soon after I did the painting I planted a couple bald cypresses in my front yard in Baton Rouge. Shortly thereafter I retired from LSU, sold the property, and moved to eastern New York. I'm told my cypresses are doing well almost 20 years later. |
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