New places, new challenges

 Every artist I know likes to travel.  Going to a new place stirs the imagination, inspires, and presents new challenges.  such was our recent cruise along Alaska's inside passage.  The weather was mostly cloudy, but the scenery was inspiring nonetheless.  i will be painting from this trip in the future.  Here are my first four pieces.








ALASKA SAILING 8 by 6 acrylic on canvas panel

The strange juxtaposition of sailboat and mountain

FLOATING ICE 9 by 12 acrylic on canvas panel 
We saw lots of ice chunks floating around near the tidewater glaciers.

PASSAGE THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS
8 by 10 acrylic on canvas panel 
Gorgeous mountains that came all the way to the sea. 

RED BARN AND EVERGREENS  8 by 10 acrylic on canvas panel.
One of many barns we saw while in Washington state.

THE WARMTH OF THE SUN - finished painting

My studio painting for the 2011 Grand Canyon Celebration of Art is finished!  This is a view from an overlook on the West Rim drive at which I painted last year.  The Kaibab Limestone Rocks are so warm and bright, lit from behind by the late afternoon sun. I first became aware of this spot a few years ago when I saw a painting Curt Walters had done from here.  I now think of the overlook as the "Curt Walters Overlook".  If you are at the Grand Canyon, it is the second overlook past Mohave Point on the West Rim.