– Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today –
John Lintott is familiar with the painting challenges and opportunities around Moab, Utah. But nature can throw curve balls.
Lead Image: Snow? In a place that averages 3.6 days below freezing per winter? Yes.
“Painting in Moab in general pushes my knowledge of how to best handle the saturation of reds, yellows, browns, and most warm neutrals,” says Lintott. “This is usually complemented by the blues and purples that the shadows on the cliffs in this area produce. However, when you are painting the area in winter, and you introduce snow, all of the light and shadow areas begin to isolate from each other, and you get a whole different set of relationships. Along with lights and shadows of the rocks and land, you get the lights and shadows of snowy surfaces. This makes trying to create convincing values overall pretty complicated, and forces me to work all over more than starting in one area. It is fun for me to challenge myself with a slight change to my approach.”
