Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Island Park Abstract Landscape



This is a 14x14 oil on board piece called Island Park.  Anyone out west knows that Island Park is just west of West Yellowstone.  For such a peaceful place, there is so much volcanic activity going on - almost as much as Yellowstone.  The landscape and wildlife are very similar without the thousands of tourists!

3 comments:

  1. Love this painting! Never really been anywhere other than Yosemite but this is beautiful! It looks like it was painted on a very dark ground, is that what you start out on?

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  2. Yes, it was a dark prussian blue/purple. I always work to a ground, sometimes warm and sometimes cool. I've always painted on canvas and linen on panel, but doing a series now on wood panel. I'm really simplifying shapes and abstracting more than I have before and the surface is quite fun to get used to!

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  3. Shanna, I really love this more abstracted style - looser, for me it's more room for imagination to work.

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