Alpine Lakes Painting
03 October, 2007 Filed in: Landscapes
This is another painting in my backpacking series which I'm just completing. The series is on display at Brewed Awakening in Berkeley, California right now and I've just added it to my main website gallery.
This one features a mountain peak above the clouds:
This one features a mountain peak above the clouds:
Unlike some of my other paintings in this set that come directly from places we visited, this painting isn't really based on any one location. To me, this is the feel of being very high up in the mountains where the air is so thin and the sky takes on that almost unreal blue. I added two very small human figures to the rock.
In real life this is a fairly large painting, 24" x 30" and the people on the rock are so small that it's hard to notice them from across the room. You need to be looking closely at the painting and even then they sort of look like part of the rock. I did this because I didn't want them to dominate the picture or be too much of a focal point, but instead be a measure of scale and a way to help you imagine what it would be like to be there.
Alpine lakes are really, really blue in real life, so I got to use a fairly concentrated mixture of Pthalo Blue, Anthraquinone Blue and white, and only a little bit of Burnt Umber to tone it down. I started out with a much more muted lavender sky but it just didn't work with the intensity of the lake, so I added more layers of blue and more clouds.
In real life this is a fairly large painting, 24" x 30" and the people on the rock are so small that it's hard to notice them from across the room. You need to be looking closely at the painting and even then they sort of look like part of the rock. I did this because I didn't want them to dominate the picture or be too much of a focal point, but instead be a measure of scale and a way to help you imagine what it would be like to be there.
Alpine lakes are really, really blue in real life, so I got to use a fairly concentrated mixture of Pthalo Blue, Anthraquinone Blue and white, and only a little bit of Burnt Umber to tone it down. I started out with a much more muted lavender sky but it just didn't work with the intensity of the lake, so I added more layers of blue and more clouds.
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