Thursday, January 10, 2013

Absaroka


Mountains from memory. Look at them long enough and then you don't have to. I suspect anyone in northwest Oregon could draw Mt. Hood and get that distinctive hump in there too. This improvisation is named after a range in Wyoming.
It's painted on a paper formulated for use with oil paint, I think there's a resin that protects the fibers from the acidic paint. Too absorbent for my tastes. I have a new piece in progress where I sprayed some matte acrylic on first. Much better.
16"x12"

2 comments:

Maureen said...

May have to steal for a poetry prompt that sentence about looking.

RH Carpenter said...

I like those clouds, floating like smoke signals from the mountain :)