“Early Morning on Powell Lake – preliminary painting.”
Painted October 2022. 20”x30”. Acrylic on Canvas.
This painting is a study to explore some of the colour choices and consider textures/techniques for painting this particular landscape. The ultimate painting is going to be a a much bigger painting (3 feet x 5 feet).
The view for this painting is from a friend’s floating home on Lake Powell. I found this landscape breath-taking and I took a lot of reference photos. I find the coastal mountains often feel less rugged than the Rockies, but two of these mountains standout and are named Beartooth and Rain Tooth. My challenge is to capture a sense of the grandeur and movement in this landscape, balanced against the early morning light and tranquility of the calm lake.
It’s an interesting painting, but it didn’t express the feeling I was hoping to achieve. This painting has since been revisited and adjusted to more closely achieve the hot summer day that I experienced on Powell Lake.