Mountain meadow is so beautiful, I can't wait to see the afternoon painting you think is better. Those boulders behind the tree are amazing. Love, Dad
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| Mountain Meadow © Marian Fortunati 12" x 9" Oil on RayMar Canvas |
For those of you who have followed this blog, you may know that I've been in a kind of slump... No muse.
Well, if there is ANYTHING that can get you out of the painting blues, it's getting out into a totally gorgeous spot which can inspire and make your heart sing.
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Sometimes one just has to keep moving when one has those crises of faith about our work. Hopefully you'll have fully painted yourself out of your corner soon!
I really appreciate your comments, Nita and Barbara. Wish you could each have been up there painting too.
However I know both of you find inspiration in your own beautiful spots.
Happy painting!
Marian, I can see from your painting that the place must have been spectacular. I look forward to seeing the painting you did in the afternoon and to find out if I will be able to see why you liked the afternoon painting better than the morning painting. Maybe your painting muse was warmed up with the morning session.
What fun, I think I recognize that rock formation and was there last Feb to cross country ski with a friend! Is it at the end of the Mt Pinos road? Funny because when it was covered in snow I had no vision of wildflowers! As for the painting, I'm drawn to the trees and rock, and I recall what you told me about your lagoon painting (with heron and egrets) having too many stripes, and that's my feeling here. Not much adjustment, just a bit of clumping in the middle or adjust values of some so they blend together?
Lee... You would have loved the place!!! AND you would have painted it beautifully (in whatever medium you tried.)
Thanks, Dyane... I'll think on it a bit. Interesting to me... sometimes it takes me a while to contemplate what might need to be done... I appreciate the suggestion.
Hidden high up and nestled just below the summit is a little slice of heaven. In July the wild irises are in bloom and spread their delicate pale blue petals across the meadow. California's native Americans, the Chumash, have their gatherings up near the meadow each year and celebrate the beauty of this place they call "the Middle of the Earth".
Five artists traveled up to Frazier Park in July to visit with another artist who lives up there. She had told us stories of wild irises spread out in a little valley. The six of us had one of our best painting days ever. What a joy to be in such a magical place.
Susan Sjoberg invited me up to paint near her home and I brought along four other artists. Painting and eating were Laura Wambsgans, Diane-Nelson Gold, Lorelle Miller and Ernie Dollman. Check out their paintings.
This was the painting I did before lunch. I'll show my "after lunch" painting on another blog post. Funny... I liked the second one better ( I'll show you that one on the next post), but everyone else seems to like this one the best. I was really happy with them both, but liked the 12"x12" I did after lunch the best.