New Glacier Series Painting
28 September, 2006 Filed in: Landscapes
I've been working on this landscape for a while, getting ready for an upcoming show. I wanted to have another nighttime snow painting that had a very stark, cold but beautiful feel to it. I do a lot of winter camping and I always come home wanting to make a painting that captures that intense silent feeling of being in the snow at night.
This one is called "Wander"and it is part of my northern-inspired glacier series. It is one of the biggest paintings I've ever done, at 30" x 40." I had to paint most of it sideways because it wouldn't fit on my easel in vertical format. It's quite imposing in a small room. For parts where it had to be right side up for me to see what I was doing, I put it on the mantle in the living room, but then I couldn't reach the upper half of the painting this way. For the upper half, I put it on the floor leaning against a wall and sat on the floor to paint.
For the areas around the moon, I used interference blue, which is a semi-iridescent color that looks clear on white and pale blue on dark colors. I am thinking about touching up the woods area a bit but I kind of like the way it looks rough.
This one is called "Wander"and it is part of my northern-inspired glacier series. It is one of the biggest paintings I've ever done, at 30" x 40." I had to paint most of it sideways because it wouldn't fit on my easel in vertical format. It's quite imposing in a small room. For parts where it had to be right side up for me to see what I was doing, I put it on the mantle in the living room, but then I couldn't reach the upper half of the painting this way. For the upper half, I put it on the floor leaning against a wall and sat on the floor to paint.
For the areas around the moon, I used interference blue, which is a semi-iridescent color that looks clear on white and pale blue on dark colors. I am thinking about touching up the woods area a bit but I kind of like the way it looks rough.
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