Mountains, Streams and Lakes


- The vertical is always intense in a landscape, focusing the attention in a cropping that is not how we normally experience it.

A high meadow in autumn, the angles and diagonal lines interlocking.

- “Summer Fog” emerged from my mind, a set of descriptive elements that I had a yen for…

“September Dawn”, a pastel, shows how expressive color can be within a grey palette.

- The view from a nearby lookout, with the Catskills’ highest peaks in the background creating a quirky set of shapes. The greyish-pinks that emerge on a thunderstormy summer day were one of the things that drew me to this image.
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This entry was posted on October 12, 2011 by christiescheele. It was filed under Uncategorized and was tagged with Ashokan Reservoir, atmospheric landscapes, Catskill Mountains, clouds, creek, fog, lake, magic hour, meadows, minimalist landscape, moody landscape, Mountain paintings, oil painting, Overlook Mountain, reservoir, seasons, stream, thunderstorm, weather.
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