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Garden of the Gods - Colorado Series No. 7
2025 - Oil on Paper
The ultimate miniature painting in this series, Garden of the Gods presented a refreshing new color palette adding reds into my otherwise green, brown, and blue tins. The unforeseen downside to this however is that I have to clean the tin before reusing it for the next painting. I would switch between two different tins throughout the week. Cleaning got very messy, which is a problem given that I was camping, and so I started just reusing the tins without wiping them out between paintings. Thankfully this was my last painting of the trip.
Light moves quickly while plein air painting. While I started this painting with the sun closer to the horizon on the right side of the painting, casting a dark red shadow on the opposite side of the rock formations, by the time I was done the light and shadows were much less contrasted.
**I painted this series inside the lid of a mint tin, so the original is a non-standard size approximately 3”x2”. Due to this, prints come with a border to fit in standard size frames. Frame not included.**
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Garden of the Gods - Colorado Series No. 7
2025 - Oil on Paper
The ultimate miniature painting in this series, Garden of the Gods presented a refreshing new color palette adding reds into my otherwise green, brown, and blue tins. The unforeseen downside to this however is that I have to clean the tin before reusing it for the next painting. I would switch between two different tins throughout the week. Cleaning got very messy, which is a problem given that I was camping, and so I started just reusing the tins without wiping them out between paintings. Thankfully this was my last painting of the trip.
Light moves quickly while plein air painting. While I started this painting with the sun closer to the horizon on the right side of the painting, casting a dark red shadow on the opposite side of the rock formations, by the time I was done the light and shadows were much less contrasted.
**I painted this series inside the lid of a mint tin, so the original is a non-standard size approximately 3”x2”. Due to this, prints come with a border to fit in standard size frames. Frame not included.**
