Original artwork description:

This autumn artwork represents my thoughts about fighting for life in nature and humankind.

There is a beautiful sakura tree in my neighborhood.
Every spring I go to see its light-pink flowers to catch a bit of fragile and fleeting magic.

Sakura symbolizes the transience of life and also renewal as it blossoms after the winter just for a week.
People usually pay all the attention to the flowers only, but this year I watched carefully for the leaves of this one special tree.

One day I was passing by and saw the leaves on the tree being eaten so harsh that almost all of them seemed like thin lace. Or like tiny skeletons.
The leaves were badly damaged but they neither withered nor fell. They stayed green and the tree lived.
Autumn came. Sakura leaves are first to turn yellow, and those damaged leaves turned yellow and orange as well. The sunlight shone through them, they fell in their usual schedule and tree was preparing to winter. Just as it does every year. So tranquil and peaceful.
It will blossom next spring and the new strong leaves will appear after that. The life will continue its circle.

I was looking at those hurt leaves and thought about the Ukrainian people who also had been experiencing the horrors of invasion, but stayed strong and have been fighting for life. And I couldn’t help but hope and pray for peace and happiness for them.

The artwork was painted in limited color palette, mainly indigo, violet plus dark red and burnt siena that give late fall mood and a bit of antique feeling. The mix of graphic brush strokes and light watercolor washes hints on fading and fragility of the leaves versus strength and stability of the branch.

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Original watercolor artwork on acid-free 100% cotton paper, made with professional watercolors.
Signed front and back, certificate of authenticity attached.

Materials used:

Watercolor on paper

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