A Painting Lovely As A Tree

This is another example of dried paint on canvas.  I used cool colors for the trunk and warm for the branches and falling leaves.  I call it "Fire Tree".   I loved the result and I just love trees, don't you?  This painting reminds me of a poem I learned once by Joyce Kilmer.  

TREES

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree

A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed

Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day

And lifts her leafy arms to pray,

A tree that may in summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair

Upon whose blossom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems were made by fools like me

But only God can make a tree.

by  Joyce Kilmer

Fire Tree
Acrylic Collage on Canvas
by Cheryl Harris White
16" x 16"