Maybe This Year
by Lois Bryan
Title
Maybe This Year
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art / Non Photography Based Digital Hand Paintingnon Photography Based Digital Hand Painting
Description
Alone in the vast meadow, two young pine trees stand and wait. Even before the first snow falls they wonder together in voices we cannot hear … maybe this year? Maybe this year the humans will come … maybe they'll come with their sharp axes and cut us down and take us into their homes and decorate us for Christmas. Maybe this year.
As a little kid, our Christmas trees always came from a field at my grandparents' farm that looked something like this. But even as a kid, I had mixed feelings about cutting down the tree. Yes, it smelled amazing fresh from the field … and yes it looked so festive and pretty all decorated with lights and ornaments and tinsel. And it looked especially festive when the presents started to accumulate underneath. But still, I always wondered, did the trees like being cut down and decorated?
Did their "Maybe This Year" come from a place of hope … or dread?
Needless to say, we have an artificial tree now.
Painted freehand digitally from my imagination in Corel Painter. No photography used in any way.
Not created using Artificial Intelligence / AI.
This is a non-Santa Claus version of a previously posted image "Choosing The Tree."
Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."
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December 12th, 2022
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Comments (22)
Melly Terpening
Marvelous work, Lois. Wishing you A Merry Christmas 2022 and A Happy New Year 2023.
Lois Bryan replied:
Melly thank you so much … I hope your Christmas was wonderful …and that your New Year is fabulous!!!
Mary Lynn Giacomini
Oh wow.......I love the feeling you get from this stunning digital artwork Lois. You can just get lost into your art! L/F
Taphath Foose
Beautiful digital work, Lois!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Digital Paintbrush"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Laurel Adams
Lois, CONGRATULATIONS! Your work has been featured in the Home Page of The ARTIST BUZzz Group! You are cordially invited to POST image embed links for this distinction to the 🌟GAs -Features Archive -2022 thread in the discussion tab. Thank you for your glimpse of beauty!