Last week, as Annette and I walked up a hill on Mountain View cemetery, I kept looking all around me for something to paint on a 15 x 20" canvas. There was a lot to choose from. Then I walked to the edge of the road and peeked under the canopies, and there it was, a most interesting, sweeping view of the hills that seemed to spread from the fountain. I instantly fell in love with the bright-green, well manicured grounds, a rare sight in drought-stricken northern California. The trees changing color were beautiful, but so was the glow of the bright green grass and the indirect blue light filtering from above, but what really attracted me was the rows of tombstones that seemed to have their own pattern and thus their own (visual) music. So I committed to this painting, which took me two Saturdays to complete. Rebeca
Such a huge panorama and sense of the vista, with beautiful color and peaceful kind of heat, I especially like the stones in the foreground and the shadows and contrast with the headstones in the bright sun. Fran
ReplyDeleteMarvelous sense of depth and perspective. You did an amazing job of depicting all those little tombstones in different sizes. I feel like I'm there on the hilltop, looking down.
ReplyDeleteThe composition is great. I especially like the trees in the background and the warm shadow of the tree in the midground.
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