Gold

Gold, dated 2019 and catalogued under Landscapes and Gardens, likely depicts autumn foliage or low-angle autumn light transforming a garden or natural landscape. The title implies a specific chromatic quality — the saturated yellow of ginkgo or maple leaves, or the warm horizontal light of late October in Michigan. In mokuhanga, achieving gold tones requires careful layering of ochre, yellow, and orange pigments over the washi ground, with baren pressure modulated to control saturation. Brodbeck's restrained approach would probably avoid rendering gold as a blanket application, instead using it structurally to indicate light direction or the selective color transformation of autumn senescence. Bokashi gradations could transition a golden foreground into a cooler, deeper background — sky or shadow — creating spatial depth through color temperature contrast. As a 2019 work, it belongs to a productive period in Brodbeck's practice when her garden and landscape subjects reached notable technical refinement.