Fawn's Paintings: Spring Rush, mountain waterfall, knife painting

Thursday, July 20, 2023

Spring Rush, mountain waterfall, knife painting

"Spring Rush"

Good memories: Mountain hikes, melting snow, fast-moving creeks, and streams flowing over their banks.

This palette knife painting is from a combination of places, but mostly from memories of my grandmother and me at Glacier National Park. She loved driving through there when we would go visit my great-grandmother in Helena. I loved stopping at the falls and hiking up a bit to take pictures.

It is also a memory of hiking up in the Cabinet Mountains near Libby, Montana where my grandmother lived. Late spring and early summer there was still lots of snow in the mountains. One summer in the middle of June my brothers and I were hiking and had a snowball fight with our mom!

I started this painting a few years ago. Like so many I create for an art class, I don't feel they are finished. Most of my time teaching is spent, well, teaching! I don't pay much attention to what is happening on my easel. With the pandemic and the closing of my gallery, almost everything went into storage. I pulled this one out last week. I brightened up the highlights, added stronger shadows, and filled in the empty places.

I have recently destroyed quite a few paintings that were in storage. My goal this summer was to get them out and do something with them. I had hoped for more positive results. I wanted to make some corrections and/or finish them. But some just didn't work out. I am happy this one survived! (You can read more about that here.)