This is the last of the four paintings I painted during my artist-in-residency at Creative Arts Camp in Maine. The other three were abstractions done in acrylic, but I also wanted to capture the beautiful place I was. I painted all week near this incredible tree, and I was particularly attracted to the redness and the textural roughness of its bark, as well as its one-sided, woven branches.

Braided Branches on Long Lake was painted in plein air in pastel. It is 15″x22.”

You can purchase the original painting here.

Prints and merchandise of this image are available here.

See the entire painting above, and closer up details of it below.