Black Background Landscape Painting Van Gogh washed sky glows behind the

washed sky glows behind the treetops

blended strokes

A vivid orange fish hovers in the foreground

Its woolly fleece is rendered in creamy whites streaked with warm ochre and grey

slender pine trunks rise in dense ranks through a shadowed forest

Black Background Landscape Painting Van Gogh washed sky glows behind theA wooded riverbank glows out of deep darkness in this richly textured abstract landscape. Against an inky black and teal ground, foliage blazes in bursts of amber, rust and ochre, the impasto strokes flecked with white sparks like sunlight scattering through autumn leaves. At the centre, a still stretch of water mirrors the warm canopy and the cool, misty light breaking between the trees. The thick, palette knife texture gives the scene a brooding,