Time flies when you are having fun and it goes just as fast if you’re not…. I think I’ll choose fun. I made a 18 x 24 oil color study this week in preparation for another 30 x 40 Utah landscape oil painting featuring the east side of the South Window at Arches National Park near Moab.
I love the way it looks almost anywhere in the canyon country of Utah when it snows. You can never predict where the snow will stick. Sometimes it only sticks on the vegetation, sometimes on the soil and sometimes it even finds a way to stick to the vertical canyon walls. I love the patterns that are created by the sun as it selectively melts the snow. I enjoy looking south into the shadows and seeing all the blue patches of snow that the sun can’t melt. Snow hides from the sun and is tucked into the deep red violet shadows of places like Arches or Dead Horse Point or any number of locations in the red rock country creating an exquisite tapestry of cool colors.
I have a Turret Arch in the fog study in the works and the larger version of this view of the South Window (although in the larger version I am simplifying the composition). I hope you check back soon. In a week or so I will post a new time lapse video. Do check ebay and see what I have on auction there. If you are interested in giving any of the paintings you see here a home e-mail or watch for the new available works page on this site.