I’ve walked through and have driven through many woods but never painted them. I love how the sun highlights the leaves against the deep shadows of black and dark green making the woods come alive. Extreme darks to lights make the most powerful images. In this painting I tried to recreate with paint the extreme lights to darks that I love so much.

Great Blue Herons are such magnificent birds; so peaceful, graceful in flight, beautiful in color, and alone most of the time like myself. The heron brings the message of peace, gentleness, awareness, and precision.

While creating this painting I kept thinking about the days of the Renaissance when all around were mysterious woods full of wild creatures but so incredibly beautiful to look at if one took notice.

The title is a reflection on where I am at this moment; single with a big task ahead of me to get where I want to go as far as my art career is concerned. A stage in my journey has been accomplished and that was having prints made of my artwork and a new stage has just begun.