Half-Solved Mystery

Last year I did a little oil painting of a backcountry scene whose location was a mystery. I didn’t know who lent me the photo, and I didn’t know where the scene was.

Since last September, I have been working with Louise Jackson on her upcoming book, Trail of Promises. I edited about 200 photos, and later she and the subjects of the book pointed out that I was partial to a particular peak.

Last week I was looking through photos of completed paintings, and recognized one that stopped me up so short that I almost flew over the handlebars. It was that same peak that I kept choosing to use in Trail of Promises!

Have a look at the painting:

1504 Backcountry Lake

Now have a look at a photo of Banner Peak by Mike McGinnis :

banner peak

Well, saw off my legs and call me Shorty!

I called my painting “Backcountry Lake”, but it should have been titled “Banner Peak”.

That’s half the mystery solved. The other half is Where Did I Get That Photo??

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Sequoia Art Show Details

Would you like to spend an hour or so in air conditioning, looking at art of Sequoia National Park, drinking wine and noshing on “or derves”? (You don’t really expect me to spell that word, do you?)

Bridge at Lodgepole2On Sunday, August 7, 2-4 p.m., Courthouse Gallery in Exeter, 125 South B Street, you can do exactly that.

At least four artists will be participating: Nadi Spencer, Shirley Keller, Anne Brantingham, and me. There might be others, but life is full of unknowns.

Sequoia, particularly Mineral King, has been my main subject for many years, and I am ready to share those pieces in a fine gallery. At last count, I had TWENTY-ONE pieces to show, both oil paintings and pencil drawings!

I’ll bring coloring books – Heart of the Hills, and Heart of Mineral King. Exeter and Sequoia coloring books won’t be ready yet. . . that will give the colorists among the crowd something to anticipate after the post-show letdown, if they are prone to such emotional swings, and assuming there will be “a crowd”.

I hope you will be there too. I’d hate to get all gussied up and and then have to hang out by myself. (I have a somewhat hassle-some new haircut.)

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