20
Aug
What I did after work…
- Lookout Mountain from 7th and Nile
One thing that visiting with Mara Schasteen did was to give me a guilt trip about making time to paint. Seriously, if she can make time with four kids, then I can make time. Since today was a short day, I went to lunch with fellow artist, Ruby Neal. After a great time of conversation and food, I went out looking for a place to paint. I’ve been jonesin’ to paint Lookout Mountain and I could see it from where we were. A little driving around took me to a place about a block south of State Highway 40 (locally known as Colfax). The view was awesome and so was the light.
What you other artist will undoubtedly point out is how I kind of phoned it in toward the bottom and lower right.First, I was out of time. Second, a large cloud moved in and parked, blocking all my light. Both my panel and the mountain were now wholly in shadow, so I was making up colors and features. Finally just decided to hang it up. I threw in some trees at the bottom and packed up my gear.
For those unfamiliar with this scene, there are actually several towers (of the erector set variety) atop these hills. They were also left out due to time constraints. The building in the fore is the Jefferson County Courthouse (locally known as The Taj Mahal).
This one will not be on the sale block, but it will stay in my private collection (closet in the studio) for later reference. As regards the photo, the greens a not so intense in the actual painting. Not sure what happened there. It’s 12.16 on a Fredrix canvas sheet that comes in a pad of 20 or something. Probably not archival and definitely not what I want to put out there for sale.