3.04.2009

Mt Hood Painting

24 x 36" acrylic

Today I worked on Mt Hood which I showed in a previous post (
November 14). I changed the tar road into a dirt road and added a bunch of random color here and there as the painting was getting boring to me.

This was done from a photo given to me by a friend (thanks Jeff). Not sure I asked his permission to paint it ...hmmmm. Oh well, I took the same picture at the same time (but his turned out nicer). This was from our late fall trip to Oregon, our friends were with us on the adventure. Right about here on this road to Mt Hood was a wine tasting stand that we stopped at. The wine was from "Naked Winery": (
NakedWinery.com), it was pretty good... though I am not a wine snob so what do I know? If its red, I usually like it.

The scene in person is MUCH more awesome. Hard to believe it all could happen by chance (?)... I cannot even begin to paint something this beautiful and give it justice. It took a much better artist than me to design this beautiful mountain! SO here is my copy of the real thing: "Mt Hood".