Splotchy Shadows

The tractor road goes downhill below a high overhanging tree on the right so that what is visible on the ground when looking back up the road is a mix of grass tufts, gravel, rocks, and shadows.  It's hard to have all this make visual sense when the tree is not visible in the painting.  Camille Pissarro was criticized for placing across the bottom of his paintings the shadows cast by trees themselves not visible in the paintings.  In his case, his shadows are more uniform than my splotchy ones.  9x12 inches, oil on panel.