LJ and NJ

We are now settled happily into our new house, and i have just begun painting in my new studio. I did a little drawing while i was in the process of unpacking all my painting supplies, and had a little time to think about what to paint. At the point i realized i needed to get started on something, i decided on a photo taken on our trip to Antarctica last December. One of the stops was at Port Lockroy, a British historical base which featured the most southern post office in the world. This was the only “commercial” place we saw on the trip. As i am always attracted to old buildings, i loved this one. The contrasting colors of the buildings with all the surrounding ice, will be a challenge. What you see at the top half of the photo is all ice — NOT sky.—we were in a caldera, so surrounded by ice. The bare white parts are land, but i need to figure out a way to present that so it doesn’t look like low sky. I don’t know if the way the reference photo looks is an artifact of what the camera did, or not. I may have to change all that significantly. To be determined.

The painting is just getting beyond the blocking -in phase, so no details for a while yet. Multiple layers required to get the feel of the ice and no doubt the rocks, as well. So no penguins till close to the end!