The Kenai Peninsula

The Kenai Peninsula

The last 2 days have really been a lot of driving. We took yesterday morning to see Fairbanks and then started heading south. We stopped along the way to camp in the most gorgeous mosquito infested bog I’ve ever seen, and then were off early this morning in order to arrive in Seward by this evening.Pulling into our campground on Stoney Creek, we were greeted by the most delicate of rains and puffy, wet clouds hanging on the moutains. Tanya and I set up to paint on Stoney Creek (where we are camping for the next few days) and just went for it. Even with the umbrellas, everything got wet and after awhile mixing paint became work with the added water turning it into a sticky mess.I stopped myself at a certain point to look and see what I had done, and I realized that I was taking to long to get in the big idea and being too literal about it. The whole thing about this rain and fog on the creek with the mountain is the mood, and to capture the wonderful mood of the whole thing. Whether or not I was successful with the finished painting, I had a mental shift where I forgot trying to get this painting “right” and just went for it. And above all, I just really relished in the wet, cold, beautiful Alaskan moment.

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