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Touched by the Sun – Painting of the Week
Texture
Last fall, I showed photographs of beautiful Zion National Park in my blog. We were so lucky to drive into the park at sunset and see many of the mountains and bluffs lit up. The next morning Paul and I hopped on their earliest tour bus to the trails. Touched by the Sun was inspired from a moment when the mountain tops and bluffs were purple and pink but were highlighted bright orange on their very tips. The grey green cottonwoods blocked out most of the foreground adding a beautiful neutral expanse to this scene.
Learning to paint landscapes and capturing its texture is a challenging. I use fluid acrylics that do build some texture yet at the same time can be transparent. To paint a rock, I hold my brush at arm’s length, and strike out directionally first dark and then light to give a jagged feel. Zion Park has so many different types of rock formations. The purple ones on the right are almost like rounded boulders. See the variety of directional strokes used to create the rock formations.
Sincerely,
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P.S. Touched by the Sun is for sale at the TAG event (The Art of Giving), September 20th – a fund raiser benefitting the new Children’s Museum in Grand Forks, ND.
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Rodeo Up is one of many original works on display by regional artists at the Devil’s Lake Art Festival that opens this Thursday night, September 11th at 6:30 pm at the Heritage Art Center in Devils Lake, ND.
This is followed by an Arts Festival this Saturday, September 13th from 10am-2 pm that includes indoor and outdoor booths and art activities for adults and children.
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