sunlight streaming down the shadow side of winter  16″ x 16″    / 550.00                                                                 w/c – acrylic painted directly on gessoed panel

often have used the snow strips of light on the snow as it streams downhill as away to bring out the hillside behind; here the dividing tree trunk coming top forward while standing up receedingly pushes the hillside back up to the top.   

i think having the centre trees running above beyond the top n below the bottom of the work helps stand them up visually and at the same time support the steepness of the hillside as marked out by the streaking sunlight into the shadows.  makes me kinda want to fly in into the work.