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Variety in the Landscape
by L.Woodward Simons on 6/10/2009 11:22:58 AM



The Bubbles - twin mountains that lie at the end of Jordan Pond at Acadia National Park - are visually too alike for a painting. My goal in redesigning the landscape was to make one peak slightly different from the other. Here is a photo I took yesterday.

Here is a painting I did last summer - the result of a plein air study combined with photographs. I wanted to make the left Bubble recede since it's slightly farther away, so I put a glaze of opaque white over the distant mountain and obscured the top with a cloud.

"The Bubbles At Jordan Pond" Watercolor and Acrylic on paper 11x14.


More to come in the following days. Oh, and the large rock at the bottom was actually there last year - it's still there now, but the water level is higher.




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Denise Hall
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I really like the painting, very detailed. Landscape is something I need to work on more.

Denise
Carol Nelson
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I really like the way you handled the twin hills. They still have their shape, but with the atmospheric effect, the second one recedes so the similar shape is less noticeable.
The spruce tree could have been a little less perfect, but the placement of it and the other darks is great.
Lori Woodward Simons
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Carol, I agree with you on the tree being less perfect. It always bothers me a bit every time I look at it.

I usually paint a larger version of my watermedia paintings with oil. When I do, I'll be sure to take your advice into consideration.

Lori
Joyce McJilton Dwyer
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Hi Lori--
It's hard to read the black text on the dark purple background to see what you're saying. I enjoy reading your e-letters and your articles in Watercolor magazine.
Joyce
Lori Woodward Simons
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Joyce,

This is supposed to show up as white text on a medium blue background. Is anyone else seeing black on dark purple?

Please let me know.
Lori
Mary Sheehan Winn
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I think you did a nice job subordinating one of the bubbles, because they definitely look awkward, even in real life.
Lori Woodward Simons
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Typing this comment in as a test. Thanks to all that commented before me.









 
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