Two new paintings for you today!
Pollination:
Pollination, 24 x 72", Oil/Canvas, © Cedar Lee
This painting is 2 separate panels, meant to be hung with a couple inches of space between them:
I wasn’t sure about the title at first. I don’t think there is literal pollination happening between the two trees here. I intended it as a love connection of sorts, or a communication of life force between the two beings. Then I considered that since they are trees, “pollination” is an appropriate description, if not a literal one.
This painting is very large, and you can’t really get a feeling for the scale of it just looking at photos, but here’s an idea of how it might look on a large wall in an open, airy room:
The second painting is titled “Deep Roots.” I was inspired to paint it after reading a book to my son, “I Can Name 50 Trees Today!: All About Trees,” part of the “Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That” series. (Side Note: “All About Sea Creatures” is also good.) Anyway, the page about the Wild Fig tree states: “Nearly 400 feet deep grow the roots of this fig. That’s almost as deep as this oil-drilling rig.”
Incidentally, based on the scale of the tree and its roots in my painting, the roots I painted are probably only 150-200 feet deep, if that. But still visually impressive! This ties into my recurring theme of yin and yang, heaven and earth, and balance in general: we tend to think of trees as reaching upwards into the sky, but in reality, they also reach down into the earth just as much, or many times more.
Deep Roots, 20 x 20", Oil/Canvas, © Cedar Lee