Painting at the Creek

One of my favorite places to just hang out and just think, enjoy nature or contemplate life is sitting next to a creek. The roar of the rushing water has a way of focusing your mind. Watching the repeating patterns in the falling water, how it bounces over a rock, creates ripples in a small pool or foams when forced to change direction is almost hypnotic. The colors are beautiful too, the warm oranges in the rocks contrasting against the bright green mosses and the subtle blue-green in the water itself. Of course I can't resist taking the opportunity to paint mountain creeks, as I did one day this summer up in Big Cottonwood Canyon in the Wasatch mountains in northern Utah just a short distance from Salt Lake City. I did two paintings that day.





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