Forest Lake

Small landscape study, summertime, realistic close-perspective rendering, no staffage, green and brown colour tones. Slightly curved birch tree trunk in the foreground to the right (crown beyond the frame) affording a central view of a small forest glade with low-banked pond, its edges covered in grass, a single small birch to the left; the pond surface shimmers with light and forest reflections. Thick pine forest with a slight clearance in the background, directly opposite the viewer, narrow strip of clear sky above. Overall scene conveys the mood of motionless forest silence.