Moonlight, Alaska Forest
©Kesler Woodward
Watercolor
28" x 20 1/2"
2005
It's funny, how I can never tell what I'm going to paint until I start. Missy suggested a couple of months ago that I do a night scene. I was intrigued by the idea, but was focused on other things and could no more have done such an image on demand than fly to the moon, so I put it out of my mind. I painted the images seen in earlier posts, of a waterfall in the North Cascade Mountains, wetland forest in the spring, and other scenes. Then just last week, I went to work in the studio and found myself painting this scene of the Interior Alaska forest in moonlight.
All I can seem to do is make myself go to work. What comes of the working is, in an odd way, impossible for me to anticipate until the moment I begin. I seldom decide to do a series of paintings on a subject. I just work away, and one day I look up and I have a studio full of work that has to do with twilight, reflections in the water, snow in the boreal forest, or explorations of remembered or experienced landscapes in a new [for me] medium like watercolor.
Leaves me breathless...and makes me think. Thank you for the view...
Posted by: Rebekah C. Rawl | June 25, 2005 at 09:21 PM
Nice, could be a forest in Siberia too ;-)
Posted by: Grijsz | June 12, 2005 at 02:17 AM