Mary’s Landscape Art Info

We had another warm day on Saturday and my friend and I visited the Jaycee Park in Cape Coral, FL, at the end of Beach Parkway. Here we found some very large trees – Australian pines – that have interesting markings for landscape paintings.

These trees grow to a height of 100 feet and have long branches with a wonderful array of wispy grey-green leaves that look like a giant fan in the sky. The trunks are large, sometimes twisted, and with a variety of unusual marks and scars from long-ago cut off branches. These are the kinds of trees I love to paint for they have personality!