Befriending the shadows

Jun 14, 2014

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I spent a few weeks last summer trying to paint the shadows in the valley. The shadows in the contours of the hills are hundreds of feet high – vast, lumbering areas of darkness that stealthily creep around as I watch. Inside the shadows are many areas of colour, making it very difficult to translate them into paint. The more I stare and try to simplify them so that they fit onto my tiny canvas, the more impossible the task seems to be.

oil sketch of hill shadow — purple hill shadow

oil sketch of hill shadow, blue and purple — blue and purple hill shadow

oil sketch of abstract hill shadow — a closer hill shadow showing abstract shapes but losing the connection with its background a little

oil sketch of crosdale shadows — shadows in Crosdale

oil sketch, orange hill shadows — warmer shadows, orange hues

oil sketch shadowless hills — and in the end there were no shadows

Befriending the shadows

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