'Water Lover' oil on canvas 24 x 30

Showing posts with label Colquitz River. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Gorge Light

This is a view from a footbridge over the
upper end of the Gorge. The water is mostly
brackish at this point. Restoration work on
the salmon run here has been on going for
some time and has had some success.
I found this to be a fairly complex subject for
a small format. Part of the water is in
full light and has cast shadows across its
surface with the bottom colour showing, the other
area of water has a reflection
of the far shore. The high contrast values of the
trees in the shoreline added yet another
challenge, perhaps to much... =;-))
I hope to do a larger version
of this soon.
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'Gorge Light'
oil on board 
8 x 6.
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Comments always appreciated.
Jeffrey