This is another attempt in painting the Columbia River Gorge, the same vantage point as the "View from Woman's Forum State Park". I moved the furniture in the front to give it a cleaner look. I decided to clawed the edges of my Xuan paper to give it a "custom" look. I inadvertently splashed a couple drops of ink on the paper ( my friends say this is my trademark....being sloppy. Guess I should change my name to Joe) so I covered them up with flying geese. It works !!
Readers of my blog would recall this image from my "RICE FIELDS" post. This is the mounted version. I mounted my Xuan paper on a 18x20 canvas. If you click on the image to enlarge it, you can see the texture of the canvas coming through. My technique enables me to exploit the transparency of the Xuan paper and fortified it with the texture of canvas.
When I attempted this painting, I only had Mt. St. Helens in mind. I wanted to paint the meadows coming back; in contrast with the downed timber. After I was done with the meadow, I ran out of steam, so I kinda blocked in the rest of the painting....... I guess technically I would have classified this one more like a water color than a Chinese Brush Painting.
This painting tried to emulate the antique style of the more traditional, classical Chinese painting with faint, almost monochromatic color scheme. This one was one of my practice pieces, but Portland Open Studios is staring me in my face ( October 17,18) so I might as well include it in my portfolio. 
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