"Sanctuary"

"Sanctuary" 6x6 oil on cradled panel

This little painting was completed on Christmas day. It was a quiet day in the studio with Otis the Wonder Dog and I got a lot done. Working on these mini landscape studies makes me happy, so it was a very good day!
This is also my first attempt at painting a stream setting (something I'm very comfortable with using acrylics) with oils. It took a little while to figure out how I was going to make the water read as "water" and still use this somewhat impressionistic style.

Otis says "Merry Christmas!"