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Friday, October 16, 2015

Light on the Ridge - Day 4 of 260


"Light on the Ridge" - 6x8 - Oil on Birch Panel
"Luz sobre la Cresta" - 15x20 - Oleo
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This painting was the second one painted in Pocket Lake the last day in the Bugaboos. The weather that day as I told you before  was changing every 5 minutes. As we were getting down to  the ridge where we were to paint that day I saw a little pocket of  beautiful light on the ridge and it didn't take very long until the whole back mountain was covered by clouds and the light was gone. I spent the morning thinking of it while I painted something else. But later on, the clouds moved and I quickly started painting,  realizing I didnt't have too long before the clouds that were coming in would cover the light AGAIN. They did indeed cover up everything so as I was already started I concentrated on the moutaiin in front hoping the clouds would move. And AGAIN thankfully they did and I was able to finish the back ridge and put in in the gorgeous little pocket of light, which was not the same, but I  clearly remembered it from the morning. I didn't do too much once in the studio, just keyed up the light a bit more and darkened the silhouettes of the trees. This is probably my favourite painting I did on the trip and it was a great exercise on "visual memory". That light was very much stuck in my head and I used lots of that "memory" while the clouds were playing with me!

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Este cuadro fue el segundo del día que pasamos en Pocket Lake, el último día en los Bugaboos. El tiempo ese día como les conté anteriormente cambiaba cada 5 minutos. Cuando estabamos aterriznado en este lugar vi un pedacito hermoso de luz y no pasó mucho tiempo antes de que estuviera totalmente cubierto por nubes. Me pasé la mañana pensando en esa imagen, mientras pintaba el otro cuadro. Pero después, las nubes se fueron y comencé rapidamente a pintar porque sabía que no tenía mucho tiempo antes de otras nubes lo cubrieran DE NUEVO. Efectivamente enseguida no mas las nubes regresaron, cubriendo todo DE NUEVO y como ya había empezado, me concentré en la montaña de adelante esperando que las nubes se fueran. NUEVAMENTE por suerte se fueron y me dejaron ver   las montañas de atrás y la luz, que no era lo mismo pero yo la recordaba claramente de la mañana. No le he agregado mucho a este cuadro una vez en el taller, le aclaré la luz y oscurecí las siluetas de los árboles. Creo que este es mi cuadro favorito de los que pinté en el viaje  y fue un ejercicio excelente de "memoria visual". Esa luz estaba grabada en mi cabeza y usé muchos elementos de esa memoria mientras las nubes jugaban conmigo!!



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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Mountain Village - #27 of 30

"Mountain Village" - 10x10 -Oil on Canvas
"Villa en la Montaña- 25x25cm - Oleo
$200

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I have wanted to do a painting like this for a long time and this was a test  to see how it would work out. I think that  I need to abstract the shapes a lot more to get it the way I had it in mind but it is a start. This is one of the beauties of this 30 day challenge, we get to try out things without being completely vested on the results as we only put in a few hours.
Going up and down Como Lake in Northern Italy you see communities like this everywhere, they are built on the mountain side and they are just a blur of shapes and colours without a proper focal point or anything that jumps out from  the bunch. That is what I wanted to portray, I just don't know if it is interesting enough. Not sure it works but it was fun.

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He querido hacer algo como esto desde hace ya bastante tiempo, esto fue para probar si funciona o no. Creo que tengo que abstraer las formas mas para lograr lo que tenía en mente pero es un comienzo. Esta es una de las mejores cosas de este desafío de 30 días, podemos probar distintos métodos  sin invertir demasiado tiempo.
Se ven vistas como estas por todos lados en el Lago di Como,construídas en la ladera de la montaña, son manchas de distintos colores y formas, sin punto focal ni  cosas que resaltan. Eso es lo que quería representar, no sé si es lo suficientemente interesante. No se si funciona pero fue divertido tratar.
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