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A flooded meadow in late autumn after sunset, with one old pollard willow on a low dyke on the axis, still water mirroring a banded sky and a thin far shore of woods and small pollards; no figure and no moon.

The Old Willow at Evening

Round 7 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 46 minutes · full size (3200 px)

I'll plan the picture: a dusk in late autumn over flooded marshland, one old pollard willow on the axis on a dyke, the glow behind it. … The sky at 3200 is stippled, with faint warm patches where the ground shows through; that reads as dusk warmth.the painter, in its notes