Back to Nature

Clear, pristine waters, laced with an archipelago of singing forests... Let's go Back to Nature! -- but I wonder if we can, and soon I found biomechanical doubts with cogwheels and all leaking into my dream, as I painted it from my boat late in July.  

It's not very large; ink&aqua on A4 (roughly letter size) paper. This miniature is now competing on Saatchi Online (where one might also buy the original; far below sensible prize, if you pardon my itch to say so) in their Showdown.  

I'm happy that the swallows (resized, below) turned out so well -- summer is not Summer without these wonderful beings swooshing about.

It might also interest you that the tree is based on a Chestnut tree. (Another resized detail.)