Bend Into It

It does not stand rigid against the wind. It leans.

A lone tree stretches and curves across a sky absolutely ablaze — deep cobalt blue colliding with blazing oranges, golds, and pinks in a sunset that clearly did not come to be subtle. The tree's branches reach outward, upward, sideways, in every direction at once, silhouetted dark against all that fire. Below, the water catches the whole magnificent scene and holds it.

The tree is not struggling. It is not breaking. It is simply bending into whatever the sky is doing — gracefully, completely, without resistance.

There is an art to that. To moving with the moment instead of against it. To letting the wind take you somewhere instead of planting your feet and fighting it.

Bend into it. See where it takes you.

This painting was created in a guided instructional setting. While the composition was instructor-led, every brushstroke is my own, painted with joy and a whole lot of color.