Lethargic Afternoon Creede Colorado
Finally finished my Creede, Colorado watercolor, while enjoying an idyllic (hot!) afternoon in Lubbock, Texas. I could not complete this watercolor on location, because it continued to rain off and on throughout the day in Creede. Sandi and I holed up in The Old Firehouse coffee shop, enjoying Internet surfing, cups of coffee, and plenty of journaling catch-up. I only got to work on this watercolor about 30 minutes before the rain chased me away. Hopefully, I’ll have another opportunity for plein air Creede in the future.
August 25, 2010 at 8:19 pm |
Another richly colored painting. I love the severe contrasting textures between the rough and multi-faceted natural background with the smooth industrial textures of the buildings in the foreground.
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August 25, 2010 at 9:19 pm |
Thank you. I added the buildings at the end to give the cliffs some sense of scale. Without the buildings, this could have just as easily been a pair of rocks on the parking lot! I hated to spend all that time on the cliffs and then look at them and say “I can’t tell what they are!”
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