Wednesday, April 9, 2008

MAZINAW LAKE & ROCK @ BON ECHO


Mazinaw Lake & Rock
Bon Echo Provincial Park, ON
15 1/2 x 15 1/2 " acrylic
Copyright Cynthia Guthrie

Finished!!....(but I think I need to take the picture with more lighting since the colours on the left side seem pale to me.) I decided that the colouring in the painting of yesterday looked like light was just appearing in the sky. Since the view is toward the east I decided that it was the beginning of the morning sunrise hence the pinks and yellows in the sky above the rock. These colours are reflected onto the calm water surface along with the rock reflection and shadows. I'm pleased with the end result and I hope you will enjoy it too.

2 comments:

Clare said...

Looking good. However, I think the photo of the painting might look better if you cropped it to leave out the background. What do you think?

CYNTHIA GUTHRIE said...

Yes! The painting photo will be cropped when I feel it is completed. Since the critique at Tweed I needed to rework some of the aspects of the sky and water. For now I was creating that 'studio feeling' where I was actually working on it.