My Drawings - Crater Lake Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship and Crater Lake. Ever since seeing Ken Burns' PBS special on the national parks, I'd dreamed of seeing Crater Lake and the beauty of this national park. Then I saw it and realized the amazing beauty and wildness of this place in Oregon and the Pacific NW. So one morning I was driving along Rim Drive taking in views here and there and enjoying a hike when I could. This is at an overlook to Phantom Ship with a backdrop of the caldera walls. When there, one can see the amazing landscape this place has, but the blue waters is always where the eyes are ultimately taken. I took multiple images when I captured the original to make an HDR image located here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9003702520/in/album-72...).
To the painting though, I continued to practice more and more using broader painting type strokes and allowing the contrasts between highlights, midtowns and shadows to capture in digital painting what I captured with an image and photo. You'll notice that more with the mountainside and portion with the trees going up that mountainside. I also found a chance to practice more with trees capturing a general outline and using highlights and shadows to bring a painting allusion of details. I feel I'm getting better with clouds and water, but it's still a work in progress...
In the left foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time in the mountains of the Oregon :-)
My Drawings - Crater Lake Phantom Ship
Phantom Ship and Crater Lake. Ever since seeing Ken Burns' PBS special on the national parks, I'd dreamed of seeing Crater Lake and the beauty of this national park. Then I saw it and realized the amazing beauty and wildness of this place in Oregon and the Pacific NW. So one morning I was driving along Rim Drive taking in views here and there and enjoying a hike when I could. This is at an overlook to Phantom Ship with a backdrop of the caldera walls. When there, one can see the amazing landscape this place has, but the blue waters is always where the eyes are ultimately taken. I took multiple images when I captured the original to make an HDR image located here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/14723335@N05/9003702520/in/album-72...).
To the painting though, I continued to practice more and more using broader painting type strokes and allowing the contrasts between highlights, midtowns and shadows to capture in digital painting what I captured with an image and photo. You'll notice that more with the mountainside and portion with the trees going up that mountainside. I also found a chance to practice more with trees capturing a general outline and using highlights and shadows to bring a painting allusion of details. I feel I'm getting better with clouds and water, but it's still a work in progress...
In the left foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time in the mountains of the Oregon :-)