Winter Monochrome: Grand Teton
“Winter Monochrome: Grand Teton” 2021
Fine art print of original watercolor painting. 8.5x11
In this series, I tried to capture the quiet yet stark beauty of local mountains in the winter. Over the course of the last several winters, I began to notice that on both the brightest and sunniest days, and the overcast, cloudy ones, the mountains often appeared monochromatic from afar. It took me a while to track down the right color, one that could be almost black at its darkest, and a translucent barely there blue at its lightest, and found it in indigo. As these paintings came to life under my brush, I was awed by way the color could convey both depth and lightness, and the realism that was created by the addition of just a few small details. I left them simple—no skies, no backgrounds, floating in space to some degree, grounded by tree lines. I have mentioned before that the paintings in this series feel like looking at a memory to me, perhaps because they look a bit like old photographs, overexposed or faded with time, or perhaps because the mountains pictured hold so much importance in my own memory, and I know, in the minds and memories of so many others. I hope that these paintings will remind you of these special places, and the memories that you have with them.
“Winter Monochrome: Grand Teton” 2021
Fine art print of original watercolor painting. 8.5x11
In this series, I tried to capture the quiet yet stark beauty of local mountains in the winter. Over the course of the last several winters, I began to notice that on both the brightest and sunniest days, and the overcast, cloudy ones, the mountains often appeared monochromatic from afar. It took me a while to track down the right color, one that could be almost black at its darkest, and a translucent barely there blue at its lightest, and found it in indigo. As these paintings came to life under my brush, I was awed by way the color could convey both depth and lightness, and the realism that was created by the addition of just a few small details. I left them simple—no skies, no backgrounds, floating in space to some degree, grounded by tree lines. I have mentioned before that the paintings in this series feel like looking at a memory to me, perhaps because they look a bit like old photographs, overexposed or faded with time, or perhaps because the mountains pictured hold so much importance in my own memory, and I know, in the minds and memories of so many others. I hope that these paintings will remind you of these special places, and the memories that you have with them.
“Winter Monochrome: Grand Teton” 2021
Fine art print of original watercolor painting. 8.5x11
In this series, I tried to capture the quiet yet stark beauty of local mountains in the winter. Over the course of the last several winters, I began to notice that on both the brightest and sunniest days, and the overcast, cloudy ones, the mountains often appeared monochromatic from afar. It took me a while to track down the right color, one that could be almost black at its darkest, and a translucent barely there blue at its lightest, and found it in indigo. As these paintings came to life under my brush, I was awed by way the color could convey both depth and lightness, and the realism that was created by the addition of just a few small details. I left them simple—no skies, no backgrounds, floating in space to some degree, grounded by tree lines. I have mentioned before that the paintings in this series feel like looking at a memory to me, perhaps because they look a bit like old photographs, overexposed or faded with time, or perhaps because the mountains pictured hold so much importance in my own memory, and I know, in the minds and memories of so many others. I hope that these paintings will remind you of these special places, and the memories that you have with them.
