When autumn leaves start to fall, it’s a great time to be a painter. I drove up Central Valley Road, looking for a good subject, and came across this shed in the woods a couple of miles from our house. I found a place to park along the road and set up my easel. It was a fresh autumn morning with partly cloudy skies, and it felt great to be alive.
I kept the painting fairly loose and I’m pretty happy with the result. After I got home, I noticed that the two apple trees are spaced equally across the middle of the painting. It’s better to create unequal divisions. Also, they create a “bulls-eye” pointing to the shed. That’s a little too obvious.