"Golden" is 36x36", acrylic on canvas.  I started this painting last fall when the leaves were at their most brilliant.  Every year I get inspired by the colors and want to paint them.  There's a spot on campus where I like to walk with large maple trees that turn an indescribable shade of yellow.  When you stand underneath and look up you are consumed with the color.  When I first painted this, it was all large gestural brushwork, attempting to capture that feeling at that moment.  Then I got pulled to other projects and this one sat in the corner of my studio untouched until last week.  I sat with it for a bit, deciding where it should go.  I wanted to add some mark-making but not overly define the content, something similar to a minimalistic yet highly rendered Japanese ink painting.