LJ and NJ

This is a continuation of post from this evening.  Here I’ll post photo to be reference for my other painting class.  I took this photo while on a hike last fall in Rocky Mountain National Park.  We were hurrying up a mountainside to catch the sunrise-and-moon-set and on the way we passed this lovely little spot.  Teacher said it might be fun to try painting this one on a black canvas, which I’d not only never used before, but had never seen.  He suggested i do a large canvas — maybe 24″ x 32″.  I didn’t want that large as it’s cumbersome to cart around.  As it turned out, i didn’t have much choice re: size, as the only black canvas i could find was around 18″ x 24″.  ‘Drawing had to be with white charcoal instead of the usual black one.  Don’t be shocked — you will probably not recognize my “drawing” as a drawing.  But the idea is just to get placement of major objects and areas.  That’s why i used a grid.