Zion Day 4

Just as predicted the weather was very gray all day today.

Perfect for painting inside, I have a wealth of images from yesterday so I painted sunshine on a cloudy day.

I finished panel 2 this morning, a snowy foggy scene from a couple of days ago. Here it is.

 Panel # 2

In today’s sunshine painting, I have painted in style more akin to Edgar Payne. I’ve been reading his book on landscape painting and want to incorporate some of his techniques into my work.

He painted much looser than I, and its fun to paint in this style. It works especially well for smaller works like this and for laying in compositions quickly.

 Panel #4

I looked out the window at about 3pm and saw a cloud swallowing up the entire mountain outside my window. Within a few minutes I couldn’t even see it, and it’s only 400 meters away, and 1500ft tall.

It started to snow tiny little flakes and within fifteen minutes the snowflakes were HUGE. I saw one knock a turkey unconscious. That lasted for about and hour and a half, and left a good inch of snow on the ground, even though it’s above freezing and is a slushy mess.

  This 1500 ft wall is only 50 yds out the back door of the cabin.

Amazing weather changes here, I am sure people out hiking were very surprised, a cold gray day, to white-out conditions in fifteen minutes.

Tomorrow claims to be more of the same, so I’ll be an art hermit again, just painting all day. Happy as a bug in a rug, I’ve got my coffee, some chili, and plenty of turkey sandwiches!