No. 54

First painting where I'm 90 percent confident I could actually get money for this. But it will be given away.

This is by far my favorite of all my works. It's so deep with the three mountains. There's a good mixture of fairly defined background trees with ones that are not. The near evergreens have four different colors on them (photo can't capture the subtle differences). And lastly, I love the ripples in the river. When I first put them in, they looked like ocean waves. "Whoa, whoa. Let's calm those down," I said while brushing them down to ripples.

Anyway, 12x16 canvas board with a half-inch border created using painter's tape. Oh yeah. Even the lines made by the tape are crisp. Usually they're fuzzy. I think I found how to remove the tape to make them sharp. We'll see if I'm right after the next one.

Handmade frame, too, which stained up better than usual as well.

Just for kicks, I had to add a photo of my very first painting from early 2020 I think. And I remember being proud as ever at that one.