Gate to the Orchard, en plein air, 9x12

Gate to the Orchard, pastel on board by Adriana Meiss

This pastel is from a week ago. This is the gate that divides our backyard from the orchard. The late afternoon light on the apple trees was so bright that I had to try paint it.

Here is another painting of that gate but from a different angle, done in the spring of 2012. New is the small Walking Stick tree on the foreground. Two nice metal cranes are also in the Vinca patch between the tree and the gate but they were purposely omitted. To the left of the tree is the "pond complex", but that will be another painting...