Painting in Alaska
For today I just want to post this painting, it’s my favorite one and I painted it at midnight on the “beach” along the Nenana river at the education center the night before I was leaving. So even though it has sentimental value to me, I also think it’s one of the stronger paintings that came closer to capturing the moment for me. The clouds were moving constantly and it began to rain while painting this, so I felt in a hurry. But more than in a hurry I was really inspired to capture the silent beauty of this place in that moment.Today I couldn’t think about painting Florida, I’m still thinking about those sky, mountains and braided streams running through Alaska, so I stretched up some bigger canvases and set to work turning some studies into more finished paintings. This should be interesting, as I have only a little experience making bigger paintings from studies, but I want to get to it immediately while the landscape is still fresh in my mind.