Wild Things Artwork |
| "Glacier Blues" |
"Glacier Blues," an 18" x 24" pastel on Ampersand Pastelbord, has been selected one of the Top 100 Winners in the 2008 PaintAmerica competition.
The piece is based on a photo I took in Glacier National Park in September 2008. Driving along with a photographer friend from Colorado and my husband, I looked out to my left across this eerily blue and misty scene. I called out "stop, stop, stop, I've got to capture this"! I knew while taking pictures that I would paint this scene, it made such a profound impression on me.
Back in the studio, I sought to recreate the sense of straining to see distant mountains through hazy mist that I felt that day. The temperature was cool, the air was damp, and there was a pervasive blue cast to the entire landscape. My other objective with this piece was to portray a sense of depth and vista. Despite the mist, it was still possible to sight a considerable distance through this gap in the mountains, and when I looked upwards, despite the mountains crowding my view, the gi-normous vista ahead gave me a sense of vast, unobstructed skies.