Still Life With Sadness Hardship Tree, 24x30"

Draw a still life, they said. It was going well, then these little feet popped out. They appear and disappear in different places, but they won't take the rig anywhere, and it always looks like it's shedding for some reason that's just over the horizon, and it might not be weather. Then this banner appeared to the left — Sadness Hardship Tree, they tell me. Figures. 24" x 30", oil paint and oil pen on stretched canvas frame.