Toward Mount Mansfield (From the Lamoille) - SOLD

Toward Mount Mansfield (From the Lamoille) ~SOLD (somebody liked this!)

6 in. x 8 in., acrylic on canvas    

$130 (unframed)

This is genuine Vermont vacation art!  Painted from our time at a cabin near the Lamoille River in northern Vermont, there's a lot packed into this little six by eight.  The peak in the distance is the "chin" of Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the state, and perfectly framed looking downriver.  The water was low and I could almost walk out to the center of the riverbed on the pebbly rocks to take some good reference shots.  We had cloudy, turbulent skies most of the time we were there, but the mist filtering over the Green Mountains is a different kind of beautiful, and adds to the feeling of delicious remoteness that far north.  

Juicy

 

Juicy

6 in. x 6 in., acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas    

$100 unframed (no frame necessary)

The luminous, juicy flesh of the cut orange wedges with the light coming at them from different angles was so much fun to paint, and an interesting exercise.  The cut side of the far slice is facing the light so I could drop in all those petite, glistening, reflective dots on the wet fruit segments, which was enjoyable once the base colors were dry.  But the near slice was perpendicular to the light source, so no dots of light (except on the peel); instead, the delicious way the light glows through the thinnest part of the translucent orange flesh like a stained glass window was utterly satisfying to paint.  Yet another #foodpaintchallenge painting that allowed me to use my favorite complement pair of blue and orange.  Photo reference courtesy of @dennispfeil.art .

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