tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post592230558982423384..comments2024-02-21T22:09:14.356-05:00Comments on Karstad Biodiversity Paintings: adventures in the colour of Canada: Grandmother Maple at Sunset (oil on canvas 11 x 14 in.) SoldAleta Karstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15900113759159760493noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post-37947751938705770712012-06-18T22:47:55.296-04:002012-06-18T22:47:55.296-04:00facebook commenters have remarked that this painti...facebook commenters have remarked that this painting is spectacular, and it was spectacular as soon as Aleta started to put in the background trees to the left of the grandmother. The advantage she had over the conventional forest interior, with its darkness and bright sky, was that the sunset was coming in horizontally through the edge of the stand, and lightening things up, though when we finished it was still a lot brighter outside than it was in the woods (it's a Sugar Maple stand in a year when a long cool period encouraged the generous growth of leaves).Fred Schuelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413290982310369659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3403025007552597654.post-88835381050219794502012-06-17T17:49:19.048-04:002012-06-17T17:49:19.048-04:00Those flames of colour on the trunks of the trees ...Those flames of colour on the trunks of the trees are the sunset shooting through the northwestern edge of the stand. Old pasture trees embedded in young woods are a regular feature of eastern Ontario, which was nearly deforested, except for some sugar bushes, before fossil fuels began to be used to heat houses in the 20th Century.Fred Schuelerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413290982310369659noreply@blogger.com