Sunset Mountain Landscape Painting Size:12"x8" the simple pleasure of looking

the simple pleasure of looking up on a fine day

This botanical study zooms right in on a single olive branch

while the dappled ground glows with patches of warm red earth and golden light breaking through the leaves

their ridges softened by a haze that glows amber in the late-afternoon sun

Sunset Mountain Landscape Painting Size:12"x8" the simple pleasure of lookingTall, slender pines rise like columns through a quiet forest as the sun sinks low between their trunks, flooding the clearing with warm golden light. Rays filter through the canopy and pool across a carpet of moss, ferns and fallen needles, lighting the undergrowth in glowing amber and deep green. In the far distance a soft mist gathers, and the silhouettes of trees blur into the haze beyond the light. The scene holds the peace of a woodland at the