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Feb 5, 2018
Media: Oil Sketch on Pannelli Telati on fine cotton Panel
Size: 5x7 in
Still in the Valley of the Gods, I switched to a new campsite on Friday night, after photo-recon throughout the afternoon. The late afternoon sun was warm, and the night warmer than many a day. I’d been hearing weather reports for a couple of days, one from Flagstaff forecasting snow beginning at 6 AM, Saturday, the other from Salt Lake City for snow as well; Flagstaff lies roughly 200 miles to the southwest, and Salt Lake City about 300 to the north. Saturday morning was overcast, still warmish, but by afternoon the wind was picking up, and out of the northwest. During the day I went down to Mexican Hat to top up with petrol. They assured me that we would get only a dusting, if that, but up on top of the mesa up Moki Dugway, there would be more, but not even a couple inches. “We are in a bubble here; the weather goes around us.” One of the women said. I went up Moki Dugway, and then left to Muley Point, where I thought I might find a snug campsite tucked away among the Junipers & Pinion Pines somewhere up there, but the wind was quite strong and cold, so I decided to go back down to last night’s camp. The wind had picked up down there as well, and too strong to use my little stove. I thought that at sundown it might ease, and sure enough it did, and a cold supper was avoided. The cloud also cleared away, but by Sunday morning it was windy with a vengeance, and there was a very light dusting of snow, here and there in patches (had to look hard to see that it wasn’t frost), and up on the clifftops, a thousand to 1500 feet above there was more of a covering. It was generally clear, and the Sun melted it all off, even though it remained cold. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: Rublev Ercolano Red; Pigments: W&N Cerulean, Cobalt & Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange, Venetian Red; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Orange Molybdate, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
Still in the Valley of the Gods, I switched to a new campsite on Friday night, after photo-recon throughout the afternoon. The late afternoon sun was warm, and the night warmer than many a day. I’d been hearing weather reports for a couple of days, one from Flagstaff forecasting snow beginning at 6 AM, Saturday, the other from Salt Lake City for snow as well; Flagstaff lies roughly 200 miles to the southwest, and Salt Lake City about 300 to the north. Saturday morning was overcast, still warmish, but by afternoon the wind was picking up, and out of the northwest. During the day I went down to Mexican Hat to top up with petrol. They assured me that we would get only a dusting, if that, but up on top of the mesa up Moki Dugway, there would be more, but not even a couple inches. “We are in a bubble here; the weather goes around us.” One of the women said. I went up Moki Dugway, and then left to Muley Point, where I thought I might find a snug campsite tucked away among the Junipers & Pinion Pines somewhere up there, but the wind was quite strong and cold, so I decided to go back down to last night’s camp. The wind had picked up down there as well, and too strong to use my little stove. I thought that at sundown it might ease, and sure enough it did, and a cold supper was avoided. The cloud also cleared away, but by Sunday morning it was windy with a vengeance, and there was a very light dusting of snow, here and there in patches (had to look hard to see that it wasn’t frost), and up on the clifftops, a thousand to 1500 feet above there was more of a covering. It was generally clear, and the Sun melted it all off, even though it remained cold. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Ercolano Red; Drawing: Rublev Ercolano Red; Pigments: W&N Cerulean, Cobalt & Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Yellow Pale and Orange, Venetian Red; Rublev: Ercolano Red, Purple Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Orange Molybdate, Lead White #2. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com
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