October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients and I have often painted

and I have often painted her

Some wonderfully old beech trees guard our local graveyards

but they are there in the dark

A beautiful cedar at an old cemetery was the model for this painting

explored here with confidence and originality

October Sun on Cypress Oil Landscape Painting ancients and I have often paintedThe pale October sun greets this cypress in its cemetery home. I love how cypress bark gets all sorts of creases and folds, like it's recording history in its form. A crease starts and travels up the tree, becoming deeper, perhaps curving, and then shallower until it is melded into the trunk's shape, where it disappears from our view as it recedes into the tree's memory. To me, this is how history can impact any living being. This tree is great at