Crooker Park Tree

We had a fairly short paint-out at a quiet and seemingly little known spot called Crooker Memorial Park located on Tobey Garden Street in Duxbury, MA.   The sandy parking lot had room for at least a dozen cars and it had a nice wide boat launch area into the park's main attraction, Island Creek Pond.  Since it was the last week of September, there was a definite look of autumn red to many of the small trees and shrubs that lined the edge of the water.    With no architectural elements or boats, the challenge was to create a decent painting making the most of what was there, specifically, just trees and water.   My thought was that success would have to be through the composition itself (dark vs. light).

Crooker Park Tree

I am happy with the color matching and the values.   The composition is a little boring, although I think the painting
looks a lot nicer in person.