If Main St. had cliffs

which mine does

Am tired of putting things into categories, so am gonna just document a recent photo outing, and follow-up with what paintings come of it this winter.

My favorites so far:

i could see doing this 4 foot by 8 foot, maybe with my photo backdrop paper i so enjoy.
It would then have a relief to it, just to make sure it completely overwhelms anything around it.
(some times my paintings don't play well with others)

Gee, i wonder what it would be like to be a cliff wall painter?

These are some cave paintings they just discovered in the Columbian Amazon.
Apparently, about 2 1/2 miles of them.

stillife

man/life

and 2 more

The one on the left could work well 3 foot by 4 foot, again maybe on paper.,

not only for the texture, but also for stainability.

The one on the right is just fine s a photograph, i should think

seedy critters

Digital cameras are great! You can shoot a couple of hundred pictures in an hour, and play with the images for years.
Perhaps i am too easily amused.

An odd thing happens when you take away anything you can use to put rock formations to scale, like plants or anything, One can't tell how far away from the subject the camera is, and everything becomes fractal.
The formations on a large rock translate well to the side of a cliff.

Rox are Landscapes

McMicro Rox

As Promised

The first photo is after the first round of painting after having crafted the paper "canvas".
The second is a pretty lousy shot of what it came to be.

I named it "Dad's Cliff", firstly, because I started it the day before he died, and finished it by the time he was buried.
I think he'd approve of my grieving process.
Secondly, I was talking to a friend who had recently lost his father. He said he felt like all of the mountains were gone.
I related to that.