Yellow Tree

This is a 6x8 oil on a panel. Again, I started out with a photo of the trees down a road and it just wasn't working so I wiped out the road, added some greens and a stream where the road started through. I had the dominant tree too close or something. It just didn't balance. So it had to have "major surgery". I think I will leave it alone now. I have tons of photos of trees along roads in the countryside that I have taken through the years. I get them out, choose one, and try to make a painting from it, sometimes doing a lot of changing and sometimes using the photo almost "as is".