Eucalyptus Tree Painting Van Gogh emerald and sapphire

emerald and sapphire

its piercing amber eyes locked forward with fierce intensity above a hooked beak

This tender pencil-style study captures a polar bear cub seated and facing forward

gilding the ridges of its trunk and the long pale tusks

the painting has the spontaneous

Eucalyptus Tree Painting Van Gogh emerald and sapphireA grove of slender eucalyptus trees fills this painting, their tall straight trunks rising like pale columns through a sunlit woodland. Warm late day light slips between the trees and falls across a forest floor of soft green grass, while ribbons of bark peel from the smooth bark in shades of cream, grey and amber. Deeper in the grove the trunks gather into shadow, and a wooded hillside closes the scene behind them. The photographic detail captures