Cool Color Palette Cabin At Turtle Lake Painting
The Place
It’s hard to decide which is more fun, visiting our friend’s cabin at Turtle Lake or painting it.
We love getting out of the Texas heat and driving up to visit them. The sweet fellowship, cooling lake water, excellent fresh-caught fish, and pine-scented air set the perfect backdrop for rest, relaxation, and renewal. There is no road to this cabin. You can only get there by boat. There is no internet or wifi or social media. There is a TV, but for some reason, while we are there, there’s no time to watch it. It is truly a place of rest. There are no schedules, stress, distress, deadlines, fear, hurry, worry, or anxious hearts. Clocks and calendars become insignificant as I align my internal rhythm with the rising and setting of the sun each glorious day. Just being there embodies the verse I love so much from the Psalms below.
The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters.
Psalm 23:1-2
The Painting
For this small painting, I stayed with a cool color palette. It was done in oil paint on a small 11″x14″ canvas board in a very loose style. I love the way the deep darks captured the shady serenity of this spot. As I moved towards the shore, I warmed up the greens a bit.
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The Process
The colors in my palette this time were Alizarine Crimson, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red, Lemmon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Hue, and Titanium White. I started out painting the darkest shapes first and mixed the lighter colors into the top layers.
