For some unknown and obviously crazy reason, I decided to paint a landscape today. Totally out of the comfort zone on this one.
This scene is a river in Montana, somewhere on the western side of Yellowstone National Park. I remember being amazed by the colors of the grasses along the river. Browns, yellows, oranges and greens. Some of the prettiest landscape we saw on our travels.
This one, again, is painting on a 6" x 8" sheet of gessoed watercolor paper.
If you've seen this blog before, you know I've been working on a series of paintings from our trip. I have some more finished paintings to post, but I've been a bit too busy painting to do much more posting than the daily painting. I'll get them up here soon.
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susan
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Until our trip out west, I had never heard of a "Hoodoo". Hoodoos are geological formations caused by erosion over the ages. Some of them are as tall as 150 feet. They are quite amazing. The hoodoos in my painting were in Bryce Canyon in Utah. As I was admiring them, the sun was shining on the dun colored rock "threesome" causing them to stand out considerably. I think of them as the Hoodoo Sisters and have named this little painting just that.
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Susan
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