Coneflower Foothills
18" x 24"
oil on canvas
The idea for this painting began while looking at the back mural in the first endowment room in the Sacramento Temple. That panoramic mural covers three walls and depicts nature scenes in the Sierra foothills and mountains.
The summer section in this 8 or ten foot high work is primarily rolling foothills.
But from there various elements, such as the American Goldfinch pair, the purple coneflowers, the large oak and the skyline were artist choices. The goldfinches would feel right at home in the temple mural as many birds and animals are present.
Another reason to paint this was that it offered many opportunities to work with a limited palette of oil colors
The temple mural center section is very yellow hued and I struggled to dial that down a bit in this scene. [still yellow right?] Now if I just had my camera in there to take some high resolution pix.....
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