‘Baxter Peak to Knife Edge’, by Alison C. Dibble, is an original fine art oil painting of Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain. It is oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, painted in 2017.
I painted it outdoors, at Millinocket Lake, in the company of friends. This plein air painting was finished in a single session. One challenge was to capture that misty atmosphere at the lower slope, to give the illusion of distance on a flat surface. Another was to hold back from wanting to paint the details of the distant forest, where I have hiked and conducted botanical work some years ago. I recall how many piles of bear scat we found while hiking in to a vegetation monitoring plot out in the wilderness, and how I happened upon an exciting moss, Goblin Gold, beneath an overhanging rock up on the hillside. That’s the kind of thing I think about when I’m painting!
‘Baxter Peak to Knife Edge’, by Alison C. Dibble, is an original fine art oil painting of Katahdin, Maine’s highest mountain. It is oil on panel, 16 x 20 inches, painted in 2017.
I painted it outdoors, at Millinocket Lake, in the company of friends. This plein air painting was finished in a single session. One challenge was to capture that misty atmosphere at the lower slope, to give the illusion of distance on a flat surface. Another was to hold back from wanting to paint the details of the distant forest, where I have hiked and conducted botanical work some years ago. I recall how many piles of bear scat we found while hiking in to a vegetation monitoring plot out in the wilderness, and how I happened upon an exciting moss, Goblin Gold, beneath an overhanging rock up on the hillside. That’s the kind of thing I think about when I’m painting!
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