Seldom Seen Ridge
12" x 12" oil on board
I had a day and night by myself at the cabin in McDowell, VA before my friends met me the next morning. It was glorious - I spent the day hiking around and painting. This is the second painting I completed. I'm still working on the other one but it should be up soon.
I painted the first draft of this as the sun was setting behind me to the left, and I had to quit before it got too dark. It was also the first really cold weather of the year and even though I was painting next to the fire and warming myself with bourbon, it was still damn cold.
The bourbon also tricked me into thinking the painting was finished, which led me to post it, prematurely, on Instagram. I took it down a couple of days later after I realized it needed some touching up. I've also had Jon Redmond's voice in my head, telling me to "finish" my paintings and make them more interesting, so I spent quite a bit of time on this at home. Of course, I forgot to take a reference photo, so I had to build on the colors that were there and do a lot of things by feel. I even pulled up the location on Google Earth to see if the shadows were created by ridges or clouds - I thought they were ridges, and they were. Here's the fire I painted beside and I posted the original just because. Painting by the fire with a cup of Knob Creek might be the ultimate freedom.
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