Alpine painting ~ different this year.

While I have found painting in March easy to organise ~ sit on the balcony, glass of wine, paint the view, January has presented difficulties. Paint late in the day, and the water freezes on the brush. Licking the brush too often, to defreeze, can lead to an imminent visit to the Krankenhaus, should one be using a cadmium colour. :shock:

So my daytime sketches have been made on small pads, then worked up into a painting later. Or carry a rucsac with larger boards.

This year, I figured out I could get a 10x7 water colour pad inside my ski jacket pocket. This meant I could draw whenever I stopped for a drink, or some food. The sketch could then be worked up directly, without a re-draw.

Main benefits for me, is that I can get a greater output for the same time, I get more paintings finished, and the 10x7 , when mounted, is still a decent size.

So anyway.......
The Album Cover:


The Old bakery



The Gross Rettenstein:



Mountain Chapel


A few more to follow.....

Love your drawings DM. I still have my 'originals' from N last year :)

Nice work Dave, I like the Mountain Chapel, nice little piece of Austria in paint :thumbup:

I like the bakery.

Thanks for posting these Dave - look forward to seeing some of the others.

Great work dave mac..... :thumbup: it's great to have such a skill. These would look great in a book with the photo as well.

Well done... :D

Nice little hobby you have there Dave, and a perfect excuse to get out there each winter. Do you sell any or are they just for fun?

I too am an artist :twisted: just not with paper and ink, but it too also gives me a good reason to get out to the mountains with a dedicated band of fellow artists each winter!

Far Queue wrote:Nice little hobby you have there Dave, and a perfect excuse to get out there each winter. Do you sell any or are they just for fun?

Don't need an excuse, I was going anyway! Have sold lots in the past, but my plan now is to build up a quantity, and hold an exhibition ~ with all proceeds going to Guide Dogs for the Blind. Not quite a plan yet ~ if I hold it locally, it would catch only a fraction of snow 'n alp lovers.

Far Queue wrote:I too am an artist :twisted: just not with paper and ink, but it too also gives me a good reason to get out to the mountains with a dedicated band of fellow artists each winter!

Yep, my skills, built up over many years, do extend to sharing your particular mode of artistry. :wink:

Nice one Mr Mac :thumbup: