Winter Evening with a Wayside Cross

A winter evening just after sunset: an old dead oak on a snow mound against a lemon-rose glow, a leaning wooden wayside cross half buried in snow, and a lone walker seen from behind going toward it, with a far fir wood and a young moon.

Winter Evening with a Wayside Cross

Round 9 · Claude Opus 5.5 · painted live at the easel · 26 minutes · full size (3200 px)

On a snow mound left of center stands an old dead oak, the picture's main vertical, its crooked limbs against the glow (Friedrich's Oak Tree in the Snow, the dead oaks of Abbey in the Oakwood: the tree as a figure). … an old oak on the mound: a short massive bole, limbs breaking out low and wide, torn open on the left, one long limb reaching right toward the crossthe painter, in its notes

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