By C. F. Lawrenson
This painting was an experiment in color and mood starting with a sunrise I saw in early spring in North Carolina and continuing with a walk around the swampy end of a lake in Northern Pennsylvania, where I had seen two herons on a deadfall. I moved one to the background to help accentuate the depth. I sort of melded the two scenes together trying to develop the misty quality and color of an early spring morning when the leaves are not yet out and the water reflects the colors of the morning sky, and the red color of the new shoots and buds.