Half Dome Painting Show
02 October, 2006 Filed in: Landscapes
This is the Berkeley Ironworks display that I set up yesterday with the Glacier Series paintings. I've got prints for sale now of this series through Shutterfly Pro and will have some other landscapes and animal prints available soon.
Here's the exhibit wall:
There are eleven paintings on display in total. If you're in the area, go check it out and let me know what you think.
Here's the other painting I entered in the Lay of the Land juried show, the legendary Half Dome, in the Yosemite Valley of California:
Here's the exhibit wall:
There are eleven paintings on display in total. If you're in the area, go check it out and let me know what you think.
Here's the other painting I entered in the Lay of the Land juried show, the legendary Half Dome, in the Yosemite Valley of California:
Some paintings fall together beautifully on the first go. This was not one of those paintings. In my quest to paint well-known rock formations with interesting lighting, I decided I wanted to have a twilight view of Half Dome with a glowing rock face.
I wish I had taken progress photos, because I ended up with a classic case of land/sky mismatch: the land looks great and the sky looks great, but the colors don't look right together. The sky was originally more of a robins' egg blue and it just didn't have the right mood. I repainted the sky in this painting four times until I got the strange glow I was after. The main colors I used in this painting were Payne's Grey, Quinacridone Magenta and Titan Buff.
This is another mammoth painting, a 30" x 40," but I knew if I was going to paint Half Dome I wasn't going to bother with something small. To get a feel for how big Half Dome is, look at the size of the trees in this painting. I've been backpacking in Yosemite a few times and spent a few nervous nights above the treeline in fantastic lightning storms.
I wish I had taken progress photos, because I ended up with a classic case of land/sky mismatch: the land looks great and the sky looks great, but the colors don't look right together. The sky was originally more of a robins' egg blue and it just didn't have the right mood. I repainted the sky in this painting four times until I got the strange glow I was after. The main colors I used in this painting were Payne's Grey, Quinacridone Magenta and Titan Buff.
This is another mammoth painting, a 30" x 40," but I knew if I was going to paint Half Dome I wasn't going to bother with something small. To get a feel for how big Half Dome is, look at the size of the trees in this painting. I've been backpacking in Yosemite a few times and spent a few nervous nights above the treeline in fantastic lightning storms.
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