Trees

"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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"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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"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

"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

"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.

"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

"Twilight in the Wood"

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2010
Acrylics on Canvas
18 x 14 in.

dead, trees, twilight, dusk, forests, leaves

"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

David Jay Spyker

Trees

"Progress for All…"

"Fallen Maple"

"Wyeth Tree"

"Blanche’s Oak"

"Hope, Sketchbook Study"

"The Tree"

"Twilight in the Wood"

"Hope"

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