New Autumn Scenes

Great to see you painting in these wonderful Fall colors David. Beautiful work as always. You truly show New Brunswick in all her glory in your carefully crafted, thoughful art work. I will be waiting with anticipation to see the other additions to this collection.

Hello David! Just found your new autumn miniatures and have to agree: I am delighted to see such colours. Autumn is without a doubt my favourite season... and at the moment, where I am, we are enjoying a bit of an old fashioned "Indian Summer!" I really am looking forward to seeing others in the series. Barker's Point is also striking.

Was tidying up a bookshelf this morning and came across a pamphlet you had made some time ago. The front piece is a photo of "Traces." Pretty sure by the look of it, it's not a fall picture, but it is one in which colour is also key, the cold sun (assumed, not seen) on the stubble field... and, it's amongst my favourites that you have done (though I still am partial to egg tempera!).

Your relationship with the natural world definitely shines through your work. I only wish I were in New Brunswick, right now (though the fall colours are also beautiful here in Ontario!)

Dina

Hi again David,

I feel I have to make a comment about your words "the dark reddish chocolate brown of November," because I have never really thought about November that way, and yet, I love how you characterize it... and now I've read that, I don't think I'll ever forget it!

I far prefer the magical mixture of light and colour that characterizes fall, to any other of the seasons. No wonder you enjoy painting it so.

Dina.

It is interesting to me, why most people visually interpret the month of November as being grey. Certainly the bright colours of September are mostly gone but they are replaced by equally rich darker colours as the season moves along. I was joking about "holding out" with the bright colours but as we move into November I somehow feel more at home.

I like the contrast in tones in November's offering. Take a look up at the bare dark limbs against the sky when most of the leaves, but not all, are gone or a strip of sunlight struggling its way across the ground interrupted by dark fallen leaves and twigs. Add a bit of snow melting from the previous night's flurries ... it can be like jewels shinning on the earth!