The right medium, the right technique, the right size

In approaching a glacier as an art subject, medium and technique are two important considerations. They both depend on the point of the artwork - I want to convey the feeling of that first encounter.

In thinking about the glacier in last Wednesday’s post, a few thinks come to mind:

The luminous, ethereal blue of the glacier ice, contrasted with the warmer colored fog which enclosed the bay, the metallic look of the water surface with ice floating in it, but the most important is the ice.

Acrylic paint and a layered approach seem to be the best way to produce the way the ice looked/”felt” - the layers to give depth to the color, incredible light and presence of the ice. That presence also seems to require a large painting.

But , before starting on the large painting, tests on a smaller scale are needed…