The Yellow Tree.
The tree’s leaves were turning more yellow every day that fall. I decided that instead of creating a three-dimensional effect for the tree, I would play with various shades of yellow for the leaves and use the simple black lines to
Indicate the paths of the trunk and the branches.
The mass of the tree would be surrounded by the cool blue of the sky above and the darker mass of green to the right.
The foreground was also abbreviated into a red triangle surmounted with three simple objects:
a grey rock, a green plant, and a black line which represents the steel marker used to identify plants.
One more challenge remained: how to create
a feeling of depth. I saw there was a path that led to a small house , painted tan, and identified by a tiny window frame. This house seen behind the yellow leaves and the mass of green becomes the fulcrum around which the rest of the forms revolve. Frame in a light colored wood.

A large white shed in the Arboretum used for potting plants is, in this view, partly hidden by
bushes and trees. The fire plants in the foreground flank the entry to the scene. The spatial recession formed by the sunlit path to the left is balanced by the agricultural buildings and large fire plant to the right. This progression is echoed in the atmospheric shift
seen in the sky, where the blue-violet air on the left changes to warmer grays and greens on the right. This painting is one of my best attempts to evoke the warmth of the Arboretum.

Framed in light colored wood.

in a thick black frame

This synthetic landscape combines several views found in the islands of Hawaii. Clouds kissing a mountain top; an eroded rocky slope, boulder at the bottom of a slope.