Trees

"Fallen Maple"

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2012
Watercolor and Drybrush on Paper
(Arches 140 lb. Hot Pressed)
12 9/16 x 22 1/16 in.

art, painting, acrylics, dead tree, tractor tires, grass, sunlight, shadow

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"Blanche’s Oak"

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2011
Graphite on Cream Colored Paper (Stonehenge Classic Cream)
17 1/2 x 14 in.

Study drawing for an upcoming painting.

art, drawing, pencil, sketch, tree, oak, autumn, fall

"Twilight in the Wood"

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2010
Acrylics on Canvas
18 x 14 in.

dead, trees, twilight, dusk, forests, leaves

"Wyeth Tree"

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2010
Watercolor and Drybrush on Paper (Arches 140 lb. Cold Pressed)
12 1/8 x 9 in.

A study piece based on the woods in one of Andrew Wyeth’s Helga paintings.

art, painting, tree, autumn, fall, forest

"The Tree"

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2001
Graphite on Paper
11 x 7 1/4 in.
Collection of the Artist

, art, painting, dead, bark, trunk, limbs

"Progress for All…"

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1999
Acrylic on Canvas
Mounted on Hardboard
16 x 13 in.

art, painting, surrealism, acrylics, dead, tree, bird house, bricks, chimney, smoke stack

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"Hope"

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1997
Acrylics on Canvas Mounted on Hardboard
6 23/32 x 3 3/4 in.
Private Collection: Holland, Michigan

, art, painting, tree, desert, sunset, dusk, landscape

“Hope is a waking dream.”

– Aristotle

"Hope, Sketchbook Study"

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1997
Graphite on Paper
c. 5 1/2 in. high
Collection of the Artist

, art, drawing, tree

Preliminary study for the painting “Hope” – excerpt from one of the artist’s bound sketchbooks.

David Jay Spyker

Trees

"Fallen Maple"

"Blanche’s Oak"

"Twilight in the Wood"

"Wyeth Tree"

"The Tree"

"Progress for All…"

"Hope"

"Hope, Sketchbook Study"

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