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Landscape with Ladder is an abstract watercolor of a scene with trees, water and a ladder. A soft line representing a ladder crisscrosses the painting adding a subtle bit of contrast. The stream in the foreground gently disappears into the distance which is filled with trees and hints of faraway mountains.

And thank you, TdPArts for this from a recent Image thread:

'With no analytics intended, starting with the formal resolve, let me say that the image is most inviting - it wants to be viewed. So your intentions to formulate a wonderful woodland scene is most successful. All of us who have tested our patience with w/c can attest to how easy it is to loss an image - but you have invented ways to keep this image viable all the way to a conclusion, Bravo!

And my suggestion of 'mythic' is not off the mark because directly in the path of the viewer, with no cat in the tree, or apple to be picked, we have this wonderfully tall, extraordinary, ladder carrying our eyes u...

My fascination with patterns stems from my love of numbers. While mathematics has been integral in my working career in finance, my other love is painting. My subject matter is inspired by photographs taken by friends and family. I see a photograph in terms of color, line and geometry. These qualities appeal to my sense of order and design (my fascination with numbers translated into art). There are times when a single photograph and the resulting abstract painting leads to another path -- and another painting -- and sometimes a third or fourth version from the same photo. When I draw something, I start with the shapes and then I add the color. After that, and as I move along, I look for balance of shapes and balance of color and...