I actually started on this painting about two weeks ago but have been too focused on looking for a job to put anymore time into it. I still haven't found a job, but I now have a few good hopefuls lined up and that helped me find some inspiration to get working on the painting yesterday and hopefully through the week. I began this new painting as opposed to finishing the five oils and four watercolors I started months ago (and in some cases almost a year), because I did try working a little on the oils and discovered that I was a little too rusty to just jump back in and it seemed better to start anew. I've also decided that once I find a job and get a good schedule established that I'll need to start a whole new oil painting to work through completion in order to get back to where I was when I left all the previous ones. I already know what that painting will be and I hope it's humor and imagery will rival Old McDonald.
Like my last painting/banner for the the CityArts Cooperative, I've also previously used this image before in the form of a charcoal and conte drawing and now I'm gonna paint it using the same two paints (Charcoal Black and Titanium White) as I did for the banner. The original drawing was sold before it ever saw any good gallery time and I really like the composition, so I felt it was a good thing to work on to help me get fully back into the groove of things. The image comes from my last visit to Glacier National Park in the summer of 2008 and was taken near St. Mary's Lake.
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