Asberry Oaks

Asberry Oaks was done from the sketch.  I was stopped at the quiet corner of Dakota and Ohio  when I said, "gotta do this sketch".  So straddling the bicycle in the middle of the street that is what I did... These pin oaks are all over the town -all over the mid-west!  They are not as monstrous as they appear- the perspective puts 2 trees together, making them seem huge.   The subdivision has been there since the 1950's though, and the trees as well I suppose, so they are not young.

Done on Canson 140# paper about 9.75" x 11.5"

Here is the sketch. From a 5 x9 pad.  The notes showing beside it are from the page below it; there is only the title on this sketch. But it was done on a peddle to Checkers for their 19 cents a lb bananas on Tuesday, the 22nd of December. The painting was done that day or the next.