Trees in Garfield Park,
South Pasadena
Robert Winter, 2003 

Acrylic on Canvas Paper
16" x 20"

Giclee Print:   $350
On Sheet Canvas, Unframed

Framed Original:  Not currently for sale

Artist's Notes

Southern California may be by nature an arid place, but we haven’t been content to just leave it that way, and in many ways it’s now a far more livable and nurturant environment than the one inhabited by, say, the Gabrieleno tribe.

When you add water to our relentless sunshine, you can get effects of green that are outright dazzling.  And it doesn’t have to look just-built or contrived.

The stately trees in this well-established park can compare favorably with anything in the East.  And so what if the trees had to be planted?  I’ve never understood Easterners’ attitude of moral superiority in having lush foliage appear without their having to do anything.

A note about the depiction:  for some reason, photographically realistic images of greenery tend to lose a lot of the impact of the real thing, so I restored some of the original dazzle by separating out blues and yellows in the foliage of the trees, and letting the viewer’s eye recombine them.

 

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