Morning Bird Song

When the day has just started and the light is only an impression on the horizon it is the birdsong that colors the land. Most landscapes have a depth of field that gives you an impression of distance. In this piece I purposefully kept the overall field two dimensional to shift the viewer’s perspective from the landscape itself to the impact that the sound coming from the birds has on its environment. The mesquite trees in the foreground are the type that grow naturally here in Texas; the way they are presented in the painting was inspired by Japanese block printing (though they are painted in this piece and not printed).