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| Slocan Lake View, BC, CA- 6" X 12" Plein Air, Colored Pencil on Ampersand Pastelboard Available For Sale As life gets back to normal after traveling for almost a month in September. I'm playing catch up on all things art related and business related. But BOY! did I have fun! For an artist who gets recharged by traveling and being on the road, seeing the Pacific Northwest (specifically the Oregon Coast and up to British Columbia, Canada) made the top of my list for my 2018 travels. I'm an east coast girl so I know it pretty well, north south and mid Atlantic. Although I've enjoyed previous trips to Washington State and Montana, getting to enjoy the PNW for 3+ weeks as an artist and spend time with my sister was a joy. I travel journaled for most of the trip and those images will come in another post, stay tuned. I still need to put a few finishing touches to a couple pages :)) Journaling is always a great way to get the feel of a place for me art wise. Observe the lighting, atmosphere and vibes of a place. (And the afore mentioned are so different than here in VA.) Travel journaling kind of gives my head time to adjust to actually making art on a trip. It also gives this "name challenged" brain of mine a place to write location names, places and people I see along the way. The dates on photos correlate to the dates in my journal so I know where I was on each day. The scene above was of Slocan Lake's south slip, where ferry boats would come into Silverton in the early part of the 20th Century bringing supplies and miners families to town. My sister has a lake house there and her view of Slocan Lake is beautiful also. So many photos to paint from so little time! My reference photo taken for a few tweaks after I returned to Oregon is below. While the photo is close to what I saw, the camera greatly changes the tones on the far mountain range I observed. They were not the very blue as seen below. While pretty I wanted to capture the actual view. |
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| Photo of Slocan Lake View for reference You see the human eye can see so many more values and colors than the camera. Which clones major darks and cannot see the subtle tones our eyes can. Plus for this morning out it was really about the fog that still settled in the highest mountain ranges and the lightly dusted glacier of Idaho Peak seen in the distant right. With some editing of the scene, (removing a couple small trees that interfere with the distance focal point) I hope I can give just a little of my experience of a moist, foggy day to the viewer. The dew in the grass and shear quiet of the location. While it was only mid September the tourist season was ending in Silverton. The campgrounds nearby emptied in the few days we were there and brisk high 30 degree temps hit in the mornings at lake level. I took so many photos while in British Columbia of the scenery, mountains, rivers and lakes I will have no shortage of landscape images to work from. If anyone is from that area who stumbles upon my blog I hope you feel I did it justice. Of course the piece is for sale and you can contact me at my email: gloria@gloriacallahan.com if your interested. All of my Colored Pencil works on Ampersand board are created using artist grade lightfast pigmented colors, and are protected with fixative and 6 light layers of archival UV Acrylic Varnish. Now off to frame this little guy! |
