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Thirty paintings in 30 day - Day 17. A tiny 4 x 6 painting of a burst of aspen color among the expansive forest landscape.
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Autumn Tapestry
Thirty paintings in 30 days - Day 16. Autumn colors cover the mountainside in Colorado. Experimented with various textures and colors in this painting. I used a lot of galkyd medium to get a thicker application and used the palatte knife to both smoth texture and dig out texture.
Autumn
I ordered several of these fun-sized 6 x 12 canvas and enjoyed painting in this format. Here is an autumn scene of intermingled aspens with Capitol Peak in the background. Thank you to Andy Cook for permission to use one of his beautiful photographs (http://www.rockymtnrefl.com/NaturePhotography.html).
Indian Summer
Seems like I am always painting a season we are not in. Another autumn painting, I am ready to skip over summer in Phoenix, AZ, ahead to fall. A long way off... So I will create the feeling of fall in my studio!
Colorado Summer
This past summer an inspirational woman named Christy Rosander (trail name Rockin') hiked a portion of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). I follow her blog, Lady on a Rock - check it out to read more about her adventures. I started following her blog a couple years ago and a year ago or so, asked her permission to use one of her photos to use a reference for a painting - I blogged about it here.
So this is how cool Rockin' is. She teaches 5th grade and spends her summer's hiking through trails like the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and the CDT. This of course takes a lot planning throughout the year. And it takes incredible endurance during the hike. She logged almost 1200 miles in 61 days! When she returned and posted her photo albums on Flickr, I come across a beautiful aspen photo and it is named "a painting" - so I could not resist and posted on her blog about how much I loved her entire album, but especially that particular photo. She replies she actually took that photo with ME in mind! Can you imagine all that goes into hiking 1200 grueling miles and to think about me, who she's never met, and take a photo that I might use for a painting?!
So here it is! Hope you enjoy it.
Storm's Reveal
The mood of the mountains shift quickly. On a stormy day, the sun momentarily seeps through the clouds to reveal a bright cluster of aspens.
24 x 18 inches
Oil on linen panel, unframed, $800.
Indian Peaks Wilderness
Oil quick study/sketch of a hike in the Indian Peaks Wilderness of Colorado.
Sketching with oil on canvas paper is a practice I have established to refine composition and value. The spontaneous character of these pieces have an artistry all their own.
Image size: 6" x 9", unframed
Paper size: 9 x 12
Executed in oil on canvas paper
Jasper Lake
Oil quick study/sketch of Jasper Lake, in the Indian Peaks Wilderness of Colorado.
Sketching with oil on canvas paper is a practice I have established to refine composition and value. The spontaneous character of these pieces have an artistry all their own.
Image size: 6" x 9", unframed
Paper size: 9 x 12
Executed in oil on canvas paper
Available on my Etsy website.
Colorado Rocks
Colorado Rocks. I “bagged” my first Colorado 14,000 foot peaks a few years back. Colorado has over 50 peaks that are 14,000 feet or higher. This painting is of Mount Evans, number 14 in elevation of the 53 Colorado 14ers. There is a road to the top, but I hiked the short northeast face trail (1,400 foot elevation gain) from the Summit Lake Trailhead as my acclimation hike for the following day, when I summited Mount Bierstadt. I tried to capture the awesome beauty of the alpine tundra from my ascent of Mount Evans. Available for purchase here.
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