long hard work versus quick sketching

I just had to chuckle this evening. I realized I worked for weeks on the painting I posted yesterday- but it gets about as much play as work I do quickly. Here I'm trying to be contemplative, but my work is absorbed as quickly as it takes a person to glance or flip through. I think I will post more images of 'the tree from the parking lot'... when I get a chance to take more photos. Ha... maybe get one image that is correctly lit too...