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Aug 5, 2015
Media: Oil on Raymar Portrait Quality Linen Panel
Size: 6x8 in
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And the mists gathered in the valleys and folds of the
Coast Range and rolled over the high ridges as the sun arose in the
northeast. Another beautiful morning and
I stayed put and worked on this painting on the 4th of July,
attempting to capture the feel of what I had seen for two consecutive
mornings. There were elk feeding in the
valley immediately below, although to see them I had to walk past the stump on
the left in this painting and look over the edge; I doubt they remained there
during the day ... I was busy painting.
The fireworks I had seen on the evening of the 3rd were observed
in the saddle of the far ridge. I was
surprised by another display the evening of the 4th, when they
appeared to the left of the left-hand hill of the far ridge. I found out later in the week when I attended
the private view of the Coos Art Museum Maritime Show that one evening the
fireworks was at the casino and the other evening on the harbour front at Coos
Bay. Again, being nine or ten miles
away, they were perfect through my binoculars, after a fine leisurely meal and
interspersed with watching Venus & Jupiter sliding into the west and the
Moon rising in the east. You might think
that in this painting I may have used a split palette as mentioned in the
previous post of the Evening in the Coast Range, but no ... it is my usual
palette of earth pigments and the blues; it shows what can be done with coloured muds. Of course the foxgloves and yellow flowers
are dabbed in with the brighter pigments (W& N Cobalt Violet, Rose Madder
Genuine, Cadmium Yellow Pale), but since they are incidentals to the main body
of the painting, I don't list them in my pigments information below. Incidentally, even though I posted the
Evening in the Coast Range before this painting, I actually did that one a day
later ... It took awhile for my signature to dry on this one before I could scan
it. Imprimatura: Venetian Red, over
the whole surface, not only where the ground is as I did in the last posted
work. The Pigments
used were: Rublev Blue Ridge Yellow
Ochre, Italian Burnt Sienna, with Winsor & Newton Cobalt, Cerulean &
French Ultramarine Blues, Venetian Red, and Cremnitz & Titanium Whites. For more visit www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com.
And the mists gathered in the valleys and folds of the
Coast Range and rolled over the high ridges as the sun arose in the
northeast. Another beautiful morning and
I stayed put and worked on this painting on the 4th of July,
attempting to capture the feel of what I had seen for two consecutive
mornings. There were elk feeding in the
valley immediately below, although to see them I had to walk past the stump on
the left in this painting and look over the edge; I doubt they remained there
during the day ... I was busy painting.
The fireworks I had seen on the evening of the 3rd were observed
in the saddle of the far ridge. I was
surprised by another display the evening of the 4th, when they
appeared to the left of the left-hand hill of the far ridge. I found out later in the week when I attended
the private view of the Coos Art Museum Maritime Show that one evening the
fireworks was at the casino and the other evening on the harbour front at Coos
Bay. Again, being nine or ten miles
away, they were perfect through my binoculars, after a fine leisurely meal and
interspersed with watching Venus & Jupiter sliding into the west and the
Moon rising in the east. You might think
that in this painting I may have used a split palette as mentioned in the
previous post of the Evening in the Coast Range, but no ... it is my usual
palette of earth pigments and the blues; it shows what can be done with coloured muds. Of course the foxgloves and yellow flowers
are dabbed in with the brighter pigments (W& N Cobalt Violet, Rose Madder
Genuine, Cadmium Yellow Pale), but since they are incidentals to the main body
of the painting, I don't list them in my pigments information below. Incidentally, even though I posted the
Evening in the Coast Range before this painting, I actually did that one a day
later ... It took awhile for my signature to dry on this one before I could scan
it. Imprimatura: Venetian Red, over
the whole surface, not only where the ground is as I did in the last posted
work. The Pigments
used were: Rublev Blue Ridge Yellow
Ochre, Italian Burnt Sienna, with Winsor & Newton Cobalt, Cerulean &
French Ultramarine Blues, Venetian Red, and Cremnitz & Titanium Whites. For more visit www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com.
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