Old Dead Tree Painting Frame:Linen white mossy greens and amber light

mossy greens and amber light pair gracefully with grey upholstery

from the burnished orange and chestnut of the body to the flashes of white wing and the deep emerald sheen of the head

The whole scene pulses with the wild

almost conversational pose while the third looks on

Old Dead Tree Painting Frame:Linen white mossy greens and amber lightA gnarled dead tree rises from a rocky outcrop in this dramatic study, its bare branches twisting like bone against a brooding, storm laden sky. The pale weathered trunk is split and knotted, clinging to the boulders with exposed roots while clumps of grey green lichen cling to its limbs. Slate and steel blue clouds churn behind it, lit by a faint break of light low on the horizon. There is a stark, sculptural beauty here, the resilience of something