acrylic painting

show me the way to go home

Photography 101: SolitudeCapture a snapshot that conveys the state of being alone.

Cairn

Cairns built by unknown hands high on the Lakeview Mountain Trail in British Columbia’s Cathedral Provincial Park, all show you the way home. When the mist comes up they are a welcome sight to the traveller suddenly very much alone in the solitude of the mountain.

This painting was first a photograph and is now a photograph of a painting. I hope this legitimizes its inclusion in Photography 101. I will await the reprimand.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

Cover Art iii

Cover Art ii

For this week’s Photo Challenge, Pete Rosos invited us to stimulate our creative processes and imagine which of our images we would like to see gracing the cover of a book. Those of you who have followed my blog will be familiar with the bookshelf, and a feint image of the painting on the book cover was seen in one of my Monday bouquets. This week I wondered how it might look on the cover of a retrospective catalogue from an imagined exhibition at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Cover Art i

 Nothing like thinking big… even though it’s pure fantasy!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction ii

cathedral i
 

Painting the refraction of light illuminating these stained glass windows of the imagination.

Daily Prompt: Sweeping Motions

dreamy viii
 
This painting from a few years ago, like Express Yourself, is all about sweeping motions creating an imagined landscape that could be described as somewhat dreamy…maybe!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dialogue

Dialogue i        Dialogue ii

 

Dialogue iii

Dialogue iv

The dialogue between the photograph and the painting as it changes continues until that moment when the conversation ends and the painting is considered finished. The two photographs were taken at the magical Castello di Reschio in Umbria and the paintings completed in my studio back home. I have previously posted the different stages of the second painting, entitled Cypress Alleyway, in response to a previous WPC: Layers, for those of you who would like to have a “virtual” studio visit.