Monday, July 10, 2017

Arctic Watercolors Derived from Collages in Previous Post

Arctic 2 with Monolith
Arctic 1 with Seal Hunters


Monday, July 3, 2017

Arctic Collage

We recently returned from Alaska, where we visited Barrow in the the high Arctic. The expansive landscape, clean air, and sparkling sea ice were beautiful. I kept thinking about how I could try to capture the "feeling" of the Arctic in an abstract painting. Today I thought, "Hey, that collage mini-journal would be a quick way to try out some ideas, since it is so small." It got to be so much fun that I just kept going for five hours. Then I thought, "Hey, I could have done a whole painting in that time!" Anyway, here are three photos of the Barrow landscape, so you can see what inspired me:




Apparently the Arctic had been in my mind, because I realized that a couple of mini-journal collages I made before the trip were very Arctic-like. This one has the "feeling" of the Arctic tundra from the air:


And this one looks like an Arctic sea with iceberg and the Aurora Borealis:


Here are the journal pages with my efforts to "capture" the high Arctic:




I think these two have the potential to become paintings:


And since I was on a roll, I finished up some faces I had begun before we left: