Finally, got my paintings from August's New Hampshire trip scanned. Enjoy the beautiful paradise of White Mountains!
This is painted from a cliff by the Echo Lake. The valley behind the lake is the Franconia Notch.
The second day we went to a hiking trail called Elephant Head. It's a short vertical trail goes up to a cliff that's the shape of an elephant head. This is the view from the top of it, looking towards Crawford Notch.
Silver Cascade is a long cascading water fall by the road, not too far from Elephant Head.
We patiently waited one extra day for a good weather to go up the highlight of the trip - Mt. Washington. At 6000 ft, submit is constantly surrounded in the cloud. I had to stop several times during the painting, because cloud's closing in, and everything became white out.
After 4 hours of tough hiking on rocks, with an easel on my back, i was completely exhausted. But I had to paint this. There is no way i am going home with empty hands after seeing such a view!
Arethusa Falls is what they call the longest fall in White Mountain area. However it was not as big as i had imagined. so i put the waterfall as the background, and painted the little stream instead.
This is an unfinished painting in Sugar Hill. Storm came out of blue. I was socking wet in 30 seconds. you can see water marks on the lower right side, there was so much rain the paint just couldn't stay on the board.
Another unfinished painting. Shower came fast, all the people enjoy sunshine on the beach was gone before I can put them on, left me shaking alone in the cold rain and freezing sea wind. The weather in NH sure changes fast!
The next three paintings are in a small town called Wilton.
This is painted from a cliff by the Echo Lake. The valley behind the lake is the Franconia Notch.
The second day we went to a hiking trail called Elephant Head. It's a short vertical trail goes up to a cliff that's the shape of an elephant head. This is the view from the top of it, looking towards Crawford Notch.
Silver Cascade is a long cascading water fall by the road, not too far from Elephant Head.
We patiently waited one extra day for a good weather to go up the highlight of the trip - Mt. Washington. At 6000 ft, submit is constantly surrounded in the cloud. I had to stop several times during the painting, because cloud's closing in, and everything became white out.
After 4 hours of tough hiking on rocks, with an easel on my back, i was completely exhausted. But I had to paint this. There is no way i am going home with empty hands after seeing such a view!
Arethusa Falls is what they call the longest fall in White Mountain area. However it was not as big as i had imagined. so i put the waterfall as the background, and painted the little stream instead.
This is an unfinished painting in Sugar Hill. Storm came out of blue. I was socking wet in 30 seconds. you can see water marks on the lower right side, there was so much rain the paint just couldn't stay on the board.
Another unfinished painting. Shower came fast, all the people enjoy sunshine on the beach was gone before I can put them on, left me shaking alone in the cold rain and freezing sea wind. The weather in NH sure changes fast!
The next three paintings are in a small town called Wilton.
2 comments:
Dear Alan,
I just want to thank you and your beloved wife for showing me through your work and via her hand written journals how "a healthy life" can be! You make me touched the strength of human being's potential...great job!
The beach painting is so great. Fantastic.
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