November Brunch Crowd

This was based on photos I took in mid-November of the Hawthorne tree in our backyard. There will still about half the leaves left on the tree and the first snow wouldn't come for a couple weeks. The tree was filled with berries that the birds loved to feast on and the ground and branches had a good crowd of sparrows, grackles, mourning doves, and even a cardinal and a couple blackbirds. The loud chirping went on for hours.

I applied my brushstrokes energetically to capture the feeling of activity and made sure to include the sun shining through the limbs and a nest on the upper right of the tree. Within a week, the leaves would be completely on the ground. A week after that, we had an inch of fallen snow in our city.

This was painted on a 1-1/2" thick wraparound canvas and is wired to hang. The painting ships unframed. Shipping is free in the continental U.S.