Zion Day 19

Today started early and wasn’t going great, as far as quality painting goes. I mixed up the colors needed for the canvas #1, that I started over a week ago, and was painting on it but nothing was looking very good. Some days are like that, and this looked to be one.

However, by mid-morning I decided to trick myself and I switched canvases and worked on a different image. It went very well after that. I could “see” this one better today and so it turned out to be a good painting day.

  
Here is what I was working on, a time lapse.(to activate the "time-lapse" feature of the blog, move your eyes back and forth quickly between the two photos. It's almost like "Avatar")

It was overcast all day and by 2pm it started snowing again and is still snowing as I write this at 7pm. It has covered the ground in a nice little sprinkle of white. I don’t think it will be the six inch snow that dumped the other day but there is usually a good photo day that follows a snow. It seems to clear out the sky and is crystal clear. We’ll see what happens in the next couple of days.

I really want a clear night with all this snow so I can get some moonlight pics. I have been waiting all month and so far it has been cloudy the past two nights.

Each day I am here gets more precious, and I am trying to get at least one good bigger painting finished for my upcoming presentations. I have the trial run here in the Park at the Lodge this Saturday. Hopefully someone other than Leslie and her husband shows up.

Tuesday of next week is the big talk at Southern Utah University and that could be a lot of people, I think they force the students to attend and listen, I’m thinking of doing the entire talk as Carl from ”Slingblade”, I’m sure that would cut down on the questions from the audience.

Here are the other larger paintings I have gotten the under-painting finished, and I am waiting for them to dry. I should be able to get a lot done if things go smoothly. Like I said, each day here is more special as they dwindle down. I know once I go back home it will take a few days to get back to painting, just attending to “stuff” that has been neglected for a month. So it is extremely important to get as much done here as possible.

  These are all 24 x30, it's like HD eh?