Fall at Tanner Landing

I’ve been escaping the fog by driving to North Bend much of the last week and fishing the Middle Fork.   This is the view at Tanner Landing Park right now looking south towards Rattlesnake Mountain.   This seemed like an appropriate subject today since tomorrow we’ll be doing the Rattlesnake traverse.

Again oils today.  I did the underpainting in burnt umber then built up several layers of thin paint with a lot of medium before finishing off the trees with pretty pure cad yellow and red with a touch of alizarin crimson and lemon yellow.  The paint is very thin aside from the trees which needed the heavier paint to hold their form. I was tempted to take a palette knife to the trees and smear them ala Gerhard Richter but decided I liked the painting the way it was for now, maybe I’ll do another of this area from a slightly different perspective and smear it.  Over 25% done already, doesn’t seem possible and I’m at half oils/half acrylics.  I know I’ll need to switch back to all acrylic soon so things can dry in time but for now I’m enjoying using oils.