The Valley in Spring

Description

I painted this spot on location, capturing those rare magenta dogwood blossoms during an intense eight-hour session. I kept it totally raw—no studio touch-ups—using a wet-on-wet technique to really lean into that classic Impressionist vibe that Monet loved. It’s a 40x50 inch piece that balances a super vibrant, colorful foreground with a striking phthalo blue sky and that wooden bridge I tucked in as a little nod to the greats. It’s basically my way of bottling up that perfect, fleeting spring feeling.