Cherokee Park in Spring

This is a park across the street from where I used to live.  We had a breathtakingly beautiful spring that I was trying to capture in this shot of the pond.  I should have put some people or some ducks or something else in it, because although I'm happy with the palette of colors, it seems a little too still.   
I love color.  Most of my paintings practically jump off the wall with color.  I wanted this one to whisper.  This is soft, sweet, spring.  I laid in all the colors in my pastel palette, and then finished with some defining darker shots to delineate and give perspective. 
Spring is my favorite season.  It's renewal and growth by opening up to the world.