Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Lewis and Clarke Trail.  The painting itself is now finished but it needs to be backed which will add to the strength and brilliance of the colors.  This is a Chinese Brush Painting done on Shuan rice paper treated with alum.  I've done a number of undersea, coral reef paintings with this paper, but never a landscape.  I did this one just to see how it would work and I do think it succeeded very well.  Will be doing more of these!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Glacier Park Show-Off

My latest painting, an acrylic, featured this golden mantle ground squirrel, a resident of Glacier National Park, Montana.  He's small--an 11 X 14 and I think, captures the little guy pretty well.  He was a great photogenic subject, definitely not afraid of people and put on quite a show for me and the other hikers just below Logan Pass in the park.