It had been quite a while since I’d painted anything, and two summers ago I tried to remedy that by looking for something interesting in all the photos I’d taken during the drive from Illinois to Seattle. None of these were particularly compelling in their subject matter, so I eventually decided to use the subject from one photo I’d taken (near George, Washington, I believe) as a basis for a painting that reflected the varying colors and shadows from the entire collection of photos, throughout the locations and times of day from the trip. That in mind, the picture ended up with a lot of subtle blues and reds (from sky, mountains, gorges, and badlands), as well as a lot of contrasting lines (a lot of the photos were taken early in the morning or late in the afternoon). I forgot that I had done this until I needed to to use my watercolor pad a few weeks ago to make a picture of a prototype for a project that I’m working on, at which point it, like confabuler, was resurrected, and I figured I might as well stick it in a post.

EDIT: The picture above was taken with my digital camera, and while the colors look close to correct on some of my monitors (the ones with glossy screens), they look faded out and yellowed on another (with a matte screen). Sadly, I don’t think this can be avoided, since different monitors will display colors differently.