June 2024
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Backside Douglas

(Cairn with Pink Rock)

Dear Subscriber -

Backside Douglas - that's what "everyone" in Juneau calls the north-west section/beach of Douglas Island; if you live there, you may know this ... the "of" is left out when you say it out loud.

Hiking to the backside of Douglas Island, especially on a nice day, is a mini-grand adventure. Out on the beaches you have some nice views of Stevens Passage and the north end of Admiralty Island, or Kootznoowoo - Fortress of the Bears.

My husband and I trekked out there last summer and stomped around; I made rock cairns, Matt found some birds, and we watched whales and whale-watching boats ... so many! I snapped a photo of a nice scene and as many of you know, I love painting en plein air, but I found when I got home that I wanted to make a painting of that scene with some ideas about it.

The following show my progressions for that painting.

That last picture needs some explaining. I put the photo of the painting in the Procreate app on my iPad and began painting a cairn in the foreground to see what that would look like. I like it, but it is more funny than anything ... so I didn't paint it in.

Backside Douglas (Cairn w/Pink Rock)

9" x 12"

oil on Multimedia artboard mounted on Masonite

Here is the painting all dressed up in an iridescent gold-painted wood frame.

This is photo that inspired my painting.

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you are having a good start to your summer. This painting will go up on my website soon, and before it does, only you as a lovely subscriber can see it HERE.

I recently made a blogpost about my oil paint color swatch charts, so if you haven't clicked on my website's menu line "Studio Journal" that link will pop you over there. Here is a little peek.

Until July, take good care of yourselves and your loved ones!