LJ and NJ

This week i have worked on several areas of this current painting.  The red-leaved birch seems to be coming along, though i still have some work to do on the “blob” part in the top area of the leaves.  The tree on the right, however, has been an enigma.  At first i just couldn’t figure out how the foliage fitted together.  Then last week thought i’d Had an epiphany of sorts when it seem ed as though there was maybe a pine tree behind the green-and-orange-leaved tree; so really two trees intertwined.  However, i was disabused of that notion when Norma (who took the photo) said didn’t i remember all the larch trees in Maine?  These are a kind of pine tree, a conifer, which, however, loses its “leaves” aka needles.  So then that means this area is all one tree after all.  taking that tack, i began painting the small needles on the ends of the branches.  Very hard for you to see; will be better, i hope, when i’ve Finished.  Meanwhile, there is still that area of green (i think a pine tree) between the birch and the larch; and then also the tree on the left, which also still needs a good bit of fixing up.