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Front Range Morning

April 18, 2017April 18, 2017 ~ cavepainter

Watercolor landscape painting of the Amtrak train in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

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This is a part of Glenwood Canyon that I've taken photos of many times. Originally this painting had much less snow, but the lighting and sky weren't as interesting. I kept the framing and angle of the first reference and painted over it with the snow, lighting, and clouds of a second reference. The clouds and the snowy river were my favorite parts to paint. . There's also a major highway, I-70, that passes straight through the photo on a bridge over the river and disappears into a tunnel on the side of the left mountain. That and a train passing under the bridge were left out of the painting. It took a little bit of guessing to paint the areas that had been blocked from view by the highway. . . . #Holbein #oilonpanel #oilpainting #mountainart #Colorado #contemporaryrealism #realism #winterart #sunlit #goldenhour #goldenlight #landscapepainting #colorfulcolorado #coloradocreative #rockymountains #coloradoriver #paintanyway #artdiscover #contemporarylandscape #representationalart #oillandscape #landscapeartist #glenwoodsprings

“The poet and the naturalist have many things to say about nature, but it is the Christian who enjoys the beauty of the earth with the highest appreciation, because he recognizes his Father's handiwork and perceives His love in flower and shrub and tree. No one can fully appreciate the significance of hill and vale, river and sea, who does not look upon them as an expression of God's love to man.” -Ellen White For this painting I especially tried to represent the contrasting light and the brightness of the clouds. . I think this is somewhere in the western half of Colorado, along the Colorado River, probably not far from Glenwood Springs. The reference photo was taken a few months ago. . The palette this time was ultramarine light, gold ochre, burnt sienna, and titanium white. I've found that, at least for the landscapes that I paint, most of what I paint can be made with this palette or something very similar. Painted on illustration board. . . . #traditionalart #oilpainting #oilonpaper #Colorado #coloradoartist #colorfulcolorado #mountainart #art #painting #holbein #realism #contemporaryrealism #limitedpalette #lightandshadow #coloradoriver #rockymountains #mountainartist #sunlit #newart #originalart #landscape #backatit

Here's another scene from the same day as the last post. This mule deer was making her way through a narrow path in the snow made by two others a few steps ahead. . There's three different widths of pencil and lead hardnesses, plus a little brown ink from a brush pen. The deer was already drawn and shaded the deer before the ink was added, so I used another page to test adding ink on top of graphite. It worked well, but once the ink was on the deer it was too dark. I tried fixing it with white chalk, white colored pencil, lots of erasing, and shading it again with graphite. The paper held up fairly well through all of that. Only a little of the white chalk is still faintly visible, but I like the effect it gives. . . . #drawing #sketch #realism #sketchbook #natureart #artstudy #art #worksonpaper #pencilandink #mechanicalpencil #graphite #pentel #rockymountains #contemporaryrealism #freehanddrawing #m_artcollection #moleskine #moleskineart #wildlifeart #artjournal #traveljournal #mixedmedia

The painting on the left is of a small stream west of Glenwood Springs, and on the right is a mule deer from another part of the mountains. The last time I took the train through the mountains there were a lot of deer, more than I've seen in years, and the photo reference for this was one of them. . . . #sketchbook #acrylic #acrylicart #acryliconpaper #acrylicartist #traveljournal #moleskine #moleskineart #m_artcollection #sketchbookart #Colorado #contemporaryrealism #winterart #eveninglight #landscapepainting #colorfulcolorado #colorado_creative #muledeer #snowyscene

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