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Apr 9, 2019
Media: Oil Sketch on Centurian Oil Primed Panel
Size: 4x6 in
Back out into the Wilds after a crap Winter hanging around civilization for five (COUNT THEM!) … five months, waiting on things that were out of my control to happen. After the first four months I was ready to head out by mid-February, but then every few days the weather reports were of heavy snowfalls in the Cascades and Eastern Oregon. So what, I thought you were a Winter guy? I hear you enquire. There is a difference between already being out in the Wilds, before the snows come, and gauging whether you should retreat or stay put, and coming into an already snowy High Desert, without knowing the state of the roads or the dispersed campsites. And then I came down with the first cold/flu since I don’t know when … certainly before 2010. My second camp, a mile from Hole in the Ground, in the Ponderosa Pines, was a bit rainy for several days, so I did the small work above while there. Deer came grazing through every couple of days, so there was nothing for it but to dab them into the painting. The rains were soft and quiet, for the most part, only blustery for a couple of stretches, and after three or four days of this the icy patches on the roads were reduced to almost nothing. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Italian Burnt Sienna; Drawing: Rublev Italian Burnt Sienna; Pigments: W&N Cobalt and Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Orange; Rublev: Red Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Italian Burnt Sienna, Lead White #1; Gamblin: Titanium Buff; Michael Harding: Stack Lead White. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com Back out into the Wilds after a crap Winter hanging around civilization for five (COUNT THEM!) … five months, waiting on things that were out of my control to happen. After the first four months I was ready to head out by mid-February, but then every few days the weather reports were of heavy snowfalls in the Cascades and Eastern Oregon. So what, I thought you were a Winter guy? I hear you enquire. There is a difference between already being out in the Wilds, before the snows come, and gauging whether you should retreat or stay put, and coming into an already snowy High Desert, without knowing the state of the roads or the dispersed campsites. And then I came down with the first cold/flu since I don’t know when … certainly before 2010. My second camp, a mile from Hole in the Ground, in the Ponderosa Pines, was a bit rainy for several days, so I did the small work above while there. Deer came grazing through every couple of days, so there was nothing for it but to dab them into the painting. The rains were soft and quiet, for the most part, only blustery for a couple of stretches, and after three or four days of this the icy patches on the roads were reduced to almost nothing. The Pigments used in the painting: Imprimatura: Rublev Italian Burnt Sienna; Drawing: Rublev Italian Burnt Sienna; Pigments: W&N Cobalt and Ultramarine Deep Blues, Cadmiums Orange; Rublev: Red Ochre, Blue Ridge Yellow Ochre, Italian Burnt Sienna, Lead White #1; Gamblin: Titanium Buff; Michael Harding: Stack Lead White. For more check out my blog at www.StevenThorJohanneson.blogspot.com |
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