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Painted Collage 11/08 #1

Painted Collage 12/23/08

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…

Touch of Fall

The touch of fall is coming to the Willamette Valley. Colors are changing, temperatures are getting cooler, a little rain - a great time of year.

Glacier Bay

I recently saw Glacier Bay and it is as amazing as I have always heard. There was plenty of inspiration for a whole series of paintings. One of the photos from the trip is above.

Corvallis Fall Festival

A reminder from a previous post - the Corvallis Fall Festival happens this weekend, Sept 27-28. Check out this year's festival poster by Donna Beverly - on the festival home page.