Hello again painting fans.
This week I will be with the painting of the Holbrook service station. The photo that I will be using is seen directly below. I will be using my usual acrylics on an 8×8 gallery-wrapped canvas.
When last seen, the painting appeared as it does in the photo directly below.
Since that time I have continued to work on the painting.
I’ve continued to refine the structure. The ovoid shape is now pronounced as well as the streamlining. I’ve darkened the window areas in preparation for the details that will come later on. Below, the sign’s shadow makes its first appearance. Above the clouds are now uniform and ready for their details.
The current state of the painting is seen directly below.
I’ll have more to show you next week. See you then.
Earlier paintings in this series can be seen here.
Paint me a picture of your thoughts.
It’s coming along nicely. Certainly, the painting brings back memories from my travels through Holbrook, as mentioned a couple weeks ago. I can imagine traveling through in the summer as I look at your work so far. In the winter, you can get some snow there – though usually just a thin layer. We stayed overnight once where there was just a bit of snow and the temps were just a hair below zero.
Thanks DD. I didn’t realize that it got that cold there. Holbrook in snow would be interesting to see.
Northern Arizona is pretty much high elevation, so it tends to be much cooler than the southern portion of the state. I want to say that Holbrook is somewhere between about 5,000-6,000 feet up, maybe about an hour’s drive – if that – from the Continental Divide. Winslow – made famous in song – to the west is a bit under 4,000 feet elevation, and a bit milder during winter (although a dusting of snow is certainly possible there as well, as we learned a number of years ago). It really isn’t until you get near the Colorado River valley and the start of the Mojave Desert that you generally stay warm, even in winter. Kingman, for example, can easily support palm trees and is often quite comfortable even when the rest of the I-40 corridor is dealing with freezing and snowy conditions. Just a few observations from making that drive more times than I would care to count.
The flip side is that Holbrook is often quite nice in mid-July, as is Flagstaff.