Huntington Eucalyptus - a sketch
June 14th, 2008
Yesterday evening my husband and I went to the Huntington Gardens to see the members opening of a photography exhibit and I discovered when we got there, to my dismay, that I had left my camera at home. We arrived at the event at 5:30 - “golden hour”- and the light was fantastic. Upon leaving, I looked toward the mountains and saw a scene like this between some large trees. Without a sketchbook and camera on me, all I could do was to sit down with Corel Painter when I got home to try to recreate from memory the colors, shapes and values of the scene. I like to think of it as a snapshot taken with my “mental” camera. I’ll turn it into a proper painting one of these days. And for leaving my camera at home, just call me a plein-airhead.
and very successful it is too!
beautifully caught everning light :>)
Lovely, Karen. It has an abstract quality, but still is a landscape. I like it lots.
You do some amazing stuff with that computer! This is lovely…
It looks soft and pleasant the way an evening should. Eucalyptus are wonderful trees in life and pictures.
this is truly beautiful!
Actually, I’ve come to like abstracts or abstract/impressionism “best” and LOVE this!
WOW… You did that with a computer??? Amazing… Love the colors….. and the humor!
I was going to say exactly what Marian said… it’s amazing! And beautiful.
Fine as it is. You don’t have to fiddle with it and add more details. I like the simle flat shapes. When I fiddle-faddle to much (and I often do) the picture becomes cold.
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Ha! I love that plein air-head! You did a grand job of the mental snapshot anyway! I had my camera but forgot to take a picture when I was plein air painting last weekend and tried to finish the painting from a mental snapshot. The snapshot was a little fuzzy though. Congrats on your daughter’s graduation with honors!