Nature Smiles

from across the river below the Cumberland Falls.

5x7 Acrylic ink on canvas

© 2015 Trish King Fine Art

Blessings to you  ~Trish

Drifting

From field sketch to studio painting, here is a scene I quickly sketched while at the Cumberland Falls last summer.  As I was standing along the rock fence overlooking the river below the falls, the sun was popping in and out from behind the  clouds backlighting the trees.  While sketching the scene, a man that I saw fishing at the base of the falls drifted  along the edge of the river into my view.  I quickly sketched him in.

 

The finished painting
 

7x5 Acrylic ink on canvas
© 2015 Trish King Fine Art

Blessings to you  ~Trish

Eagle Falls

One of my favorite landscape elements to paint is water.  Waterfalls are especially fun!  This is Eagle Falls located @ Cumberland Falls State Park

 

7x5 Acrylic ink on canvas
© 2014 Trish King Fine Art

 Blessings to you  ~Trish

Morning Calm

Along the Cumberland River @ Cumberland Falls State Park
 

5x7 Acrylic ink on canvas
© 2014 Trish King Fine Art

Blessings to you  ~Trish

Leaning Pine

Along the Cumberland River when the water was low.  @ Cumberland Falls State Park



7x5 Acrylic ink on canvas
© 2014 Trish King Fine Art

Blessings to you  ~Trish

Driftwood

Along the Cumberland Falls Beach

 

7x5 Acrylic Ink on canvas
© 2014 Trish King Fine Art

Blessings to you  ~Trish

A Quick Sketch

This is a scene along the Eagle Falls Trail @ Cumberland Falls State Park

 

5x7  Acrylic Ink on canvas
© 2014 Trish King Fine Art

 

Blessings to you  ~Trish

A Cumberland Morning

 

'A Cumberland Morning' - CFSP

5x7  acrylic on panel

 

Good Morning to You,

I painted this little gem from a reference photo I took while having a morning picnic with my family a couple of years ago at The Cumberland Falls State Park.  It was lightly raining that morning which created beautiful color across the landscape.  I particularly like how the saturation of the color brings out the light green lichen on the rocks.

~Trish 

The Cumberland Falls

The Cumberland Falls    9x12    Acrylic on canvas panel

     As school ends for summer vacation to begin,  I have been thinking of the many places my boys and I can go to hike and for myself to paint en plein air.  The Cumberland Falls is top on our list to be visited often. 

Cool Mist - Demo



Placing the darks and lights



The completed underpainting

 

 

 

Working in the color

 

 

 

Details are added to finish the work

 

Cool Mist    14x11    Acrylic on canvas panel

The Cumberland Falls State Resort Park.

Definitely one of my favorite locations to paint!

 

'Exploring'...The Process of Composing

A painter needs to study, meditate, experiment and practice interminably...Edgar Payne

 

The Cumberland Falls Beach

 

     I remember the day was cold with a slight breeze.  The sun was low and light kept appearing from behind the clouds in quick flashes across the landscape.  I have always felt this kind of fleeting light to be a gift.  For an artist, this kind of action from nature will cause us to pause and study.  We become immobile and silent only on the outside.  Inside, notes are quickly taken for later use.  Of course, my mental note taking was more important than snapping a photo, so it was after the light show that I took the above pic.  However, it has plenty of information for a compositon to be made.

 

 

     One element of the landscape that pulled at me was the driftwood and how it laid naturally guiding back to the middleground boulders.  In this photo of my sketchbook, I have layed out a simple line sketch to estabolish the composition.  The larger sketch is a map of light and dark values.  It is in the contrast of values that I will rely on my "note taking".

 

    After completing the landscape, I felt that the composition needed something more, so I placed a couple of figures exploring on the smaller rocks with their canoe pulled up onto the beach. 

Exploring  11x14  acrylic on canvas panel