The picture below is one of mine. I broke my right hand last year and as soon as the plaster was off and I had had sufficient physio to actually get a grip, I started this picture. I considered it part of my therapy.
Australian Acacia (golden wattle) was introduced to Israel (along with gum trees) to prevent soil erosion. They obviously found a hospitable environment here, growing more lush than the spindly ones surviving in the sandy soil of my childhood in coastal Western Australia.
During the early summer the wattles bloom and our village is full of the bushes which spring up wildly and grow like stink. This particular tree grows over a fence placed around a construction site. The construction has been slow, so the tree has had lots of opportunity to flourish. It grows over the path where I walk the dog and has now been trimmed so that one can pass underneath the canopy.
I finished the painting a few weeks ago – it took more than a year! I had a vision of it being a burst of golden color. I think I achieved that but the effect is no where near as dramatic as I had hoped.
Hope you like it.