"Alice Lake", Oil Painting
18" X 24" Stretched Canvas

Again this evening Carl spent his hours developing the large pine tree further. Carl said tonight he doesn't know yet if he can "make the tree work". It is this uncertainty that draws him to the painting now. Carl said he knows how to paint the remaining pine trees that will stretch vertically from the bottom to the top of the canvas left of the big tree, but he doesn't know yet how to create the big tree accurately.

Carl has run into this problem of "chasing colors", as he calls it, with almost every one of his painting projects. When he first encountered this phenomenon he was very discouraged and troubled. Now, however, he has the history of several past paintings where he successfully worked through these problems. So he says he is fairly confident that if he persists through several sessions eventually the problem element will come out fine. So it is with the big pine in this painting. Carl says it is this one thing that more than any other he wants to pass on to those viewing these Easel Cam progressions: Persist... endure... press through.

An original 18" X 24"  oil painting on stretched canvas using Winsor and Newton Artisan Water Mixable Oils.

This project based on a photograph Carl's brother's brother-in-law Lee Eichelberger took  while backpacking in Idaho.

Copyright(c) , 2005 Carl E. Gluck. All rights reserved.