Saturday, January 08, 2011

Morning Sun at Arches National Park

acrylic on canvas board, 12x16

Spectacular shadows and highlights in this view of Arches National Park - I hope I did it justice. Tried to keep it more abstract. - Chris


3 comments:

  1. Chris , this is awesome! Wonderful capture of the light through the arch...love the grayed greens too! Very exciting piece here! Brian

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  2. Great foreground. One comment, feel free to disregard, is that the light in the hole in the arch seems a bit too light? Lighter than the sky?

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  3. Thanks Audrey. It's true that the light is very bright. I probably should have made the sky brighter. In the original photo, it was a very clear day and the sky was really overexposed. I made it bluer in the painting, but didn't think of the contract with the arch.
    Chris

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