This is the second of my new paintings for 2018. I wanted to try to paint the Mountain in such a way that it has mass but is a bit 

mystical in its appearance - a little less blatantly WHITE!!!  I think this succeeded. The scene is from a horrible photo I took looking west from Chinook Pass east of Mt. Rainier.  The title, "The Mountains Belong to the Sky" is a quote from Irby Brown's teacher, Olin Travis, which is included in a very beautiful book about Irby Brown, called Irby Brown, Southwest Landscape Paintings by Richard Brunson. I am finding that advice extremely important in painting Mount Rainier and other mountains.

As with most of my works, this painting may be purchased from the Daily Paintworks site. - Auction starting at $60

http://www.dailypaintworks.com/by/auction/836073 or visit my gallery there. Still working out the bugs in my memory of how to put that link here for you, will do with next posts. 

Other artists I am enjoying right now - check them out - Carol Marine, Michael Chamberlain, Clyde Aspevig

This is my first post in a long time. It is great to be painting again. I have "retired" as an Episcopal priest and so have returned to painting. Will get blogging and offer you all some of what I have and am learning as a painter. Meanwhile, check out the youtube site for the Bay Area painter, Michael Chamberlain - great! This is a painting I did of a small runoff stream at Mt. Rainier National Park. I loved the energy of the stream and the wonderful grasses and lush greens of the moss. This painting is available on the Daily Paintworks Site check out my gallery there too

https://www.dailypaintworks.com/buy/auction/836076