Emerald Lake Painting

Below is my painting of the eastern ridges above Emerald Lake, to which we hiked and camped a week and half ago. I started it while there, and as I mentioned in a previous blog, anyone with a low-powered microscope would find plenty of gnat parts included in the texture! Oil paint takes a while to dry, so I made a lightweight but sturdy framework out of 4 pushpins, foamboard and a plastic document folder so that I could pack it out and get it home to Tacoma without smearing what I'd started.