I wanted to share this painting and a little bit about it with you. It is a large painting, 48 X 72 inches ( two panels 36 x 48 panels). I painted it way back in the 1990’s. I exhibited it a couple of times and then it found its way into someone’s collection. Sadly I did not keep the best records back in the 1990’s so If you own this painting send me an e-mail. The title of the painting is “Peculiar Offering” I discovered this little pile of boulders while hiking near Fish Lake in central Utah. I love the rocks in the area I really enjoy how time and mother nature have dressed these lava boulders in pale yellow-green lichens. The cool green lichens are periodically punctuated with patches intense orange or yellow. I may be one of the few people who appreciate the beauty hidden in those rock piles. I plan on revisiting the rock pile theme in my studio in the near future so check back and see some more old work and some new.
Right now in the studio as part of my “oil paintings of Utah” series I am focusing on a couple of images of the arches (Turret, the north and south windows). I also have some desire to paint a little more of that amazing blue water of Cozumel. Check Ebay and see what I am auctioning. If you are interested in work like this painting or others you have seen e-mail me.
This oil painting by my father, Byrd Bartholomew hangs where I can see it every day. It is a wonderful stylized view of Mt. Nebo with Mt. Timpanogos off in the distance. I believe he painted it sometime in the late fifties or early sixties. I love the way he organized his shapes he really designed his space well. The Juniper tree represented here is pretty tame compared to the fantastic forms he explored in his later works. Another aspect of this painting which I enjoy is the progression of color from warm to cool and value from dark to light as you travel into the painting. This painting is a textbook example of the atmospheric perspective as described by Leonardo da Vinci .
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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.
Wow! I completed my newest double Arch painting. Its the third time I have used it in a composition and the first time in snow. The snow added an unexpected graphic quality that I enjoy. I painted it using only Yellow Ocher, English red and French Ultramarine. Along with white and a tiny bit of black. I like to use a limited palette, it helps me create a unified color scheme. I plan on posting a time lapse of this painting tomorrow so watch for it.( I also hope to take a better still image and replace this one which has a nasty bit of glare on the top half.) This newest example of my Utah landscape paintings is 40 inches tall and 30 inches wide. My next studio painting will have a bit of a tonalist quality not that I am a tonalist. I have been in the arches in the fog and it is quite an experience both the area around the windows district and over at delicate arch both areas were magnificent in the mist cold fog. I plan on painting some smaller versions of the arches in the fog because I am temporarily out of larger canvases. If you are interested in this or any other paintings like it please e-mail me for details. Check my ebay store and see what small plein air or studio study works I have there.
Wow! its been a week since my last post. I hope you are a return reader. Enjoy some of my time lapse You Tube videos posted below. Tonight I am working on a 40 x 30 oil painting of Utah’s famous Double Arch. This picture is of it as I started working on it tonight. Its snowing outside right now so I am glad to be in my studio all warm and cozy.
Greetings, here is the time lapse video of my most recent oil painting of Utah. I hope you enjoy it. Next up Double Arch in the snow.One of my next posts will be an update on that painting!
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I have been working on my South Window in the Snow painting this week. I think it is very close to being complete. I am always surprised as I paint by the little things I learn and re-learn about color or value relationships or the sense of rhythm I see and feel as I activate a landscape. It is almost as if I forget half of what I think I know about painting between each painting. With that said I will tell you that I plan on painting the Double Arch in snow for my next project. Double Arch is only about a half a mile walk from the South Window so they have virtually the same geology (although the Entrada sandstone is a little lumpier at the base of Double Arch). Because I visited both arches on the same day at about the same time I hope what I have learned in the South Window painting will still be in my brain as I start the Double Arch painting. Scroll down and watch my Corona Arch time-lapse video (if you have not seen it yet). I have had a bunch of good feedback about how cool the video is, now I need someone to feel that way about the painting. If that person is you e-mail about how it or one like it can be yours. Check out my Ebay store and see what plein air or small studio studies I have for sale or auction this week. Thanks for visiting. Check back soon to see the finished paintings.
Here is a 30 x 40 canvas I am working on this week in the studio. I am doing another time lapse video of this painting but it might be a week until I am done so I thought I would share this little painting in progress. I do love the way the snow clings to the shadow side of everything in the canyon country of Utah. It my be a sunny desert, but trust me its a dang cold desert. Last November Rhonda and I camped over near Goblin Valley and we nearly froze! For those of you hoping for some plein air work from me sorry the days are to short. I decided to dedicate myself to the studio until late spring so I can finish my day of teaching and then get to a good location in time to actually set up and paint. So enjoy the studio work!
Here is the complete time lapse vidoe of me painting my first version of Corona Arch.
I hope you enjoy the audio track I added. My sped up brush made kind of an annoying static sound. If you are interested in this or any other paintings hereon my web site e-mail me.
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