Cattails at Pike’s Pond 2024
Andreas Engel

oil on canvas
12″x12″

A personal note about this piece:

Watch the video on the making of this painting.

This oil painting began on-site at Mass Audubon’s Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Lenox, MA. I was captivated by the relationships of textures, reflections, and underwater shadows in the shallow Pike’s Pond. My process for this painting began with rubbing the oil paint with rags into the canvas to get an overall impression and composition before moving to brushes. Ultimately, I finished the details using multiple techniques with a toothpick.

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