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.