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We use an app called "All Trails" to find most of the hikes we go on. They are rated as easy, moderate or hard. This one was ranked moderate, but the comments said some people might consider it hard. It was about 2+1/2 hours of lung-busting, heart-breaking UP, so we tended to agree with HARD. And the lake they promised at the end? We got a tiny peek of it from the top, WAY down the other side of the mountain, with no discernible trail to get there. The hubs and I agreed pretty quickly that we didn't want to go down just to come back up again. The silver lining of this particular hike was this scree field & cliffs about halfway up where I got some nice pictures. My favorite part is the way the shadows change colors depending on where they're pointing, and what light is reflecting back into them (cool sky or warm reflected sunlight). I thought about it the whole way back down, on shaky legs.
As you might guess, we are back from camping. : ) A couple of highlights: we saw a bear! Just a small, black bear, and it ran away immediately, but it was pretty exciting - closest I've ever been to a bear in the wild. And I went to an art opening! My first social event in FOREVER (boy was I rusty)! And a very cool show - artist Turner Vinson, who has lived in this area for a year now and has made some awesome Youtube videos of him painting here. Check them out!
3 comments:
Hi from Texas Carol. Keep the gouache landscapes coming! Just love the spontaneity and how few marks you do to capture the scene. This has always been your specialty IMO.
Can you talk about your gouache set-up? Do you squeeze from tubes? And then can you re-wet the blob, or do you have to throw out any un-used paint?
These tiny paintings are so fresh and 'clearly colored'.
Hi Unknown and thank you! Yes, I squeeze from tubes, and I keep them wet with a sta-wet palette. If I mist it and put it inside a ziplock bag between uses, they stay wet for a couple of weeks or so. The white doesn't re-wet as well as the colors, but mostly I don't have to throw out any paint. : )
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