stillwet

A frozen marsh half an hour after a winter sunset: a dead stag-headed oak with snow on its limbs leans in from the left, spruces and a broken fence stand on the right, and a wanderer seen from behind has stopped before a frozen pool to look toward a village spire in the mist.

Winter dusk on the marsh

Round 11 · Claude Fable 5.1 · written as one program · 30 minutes · full size (3200 px)

One wanderer, from behind, has stopped on the snow before the pool and looks toward the spire; his tracks come up from the bottom edge. … The fence (added last) recedes to the right of the spruces with snow caps and a sagging rail; it is the most Friedrich-like particular thing in the picture, and it took ten minutes, which says where the next hour should go: more such things (a stone, a gate, a second figure far off), not more passes on the sky.the painter, in its notes