{"id":3949,"date":"2017-01-07T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2017-01-08T13:35:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T19:35:06","slug":"soaring-in-the-sierras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donaldneff.com\/blog\/soaring-in-the-sierras\/","title":{"rendered":"Soaring in the Sierras"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tenaya<\/a>
Tenaya Outlet, 24×12, oil on gallery wrap canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Up and away to Lake Tenaya, another big day, enough for a lifetime.\u00a0 The rocks, the air, everything speaking with audible voice or silent; joyful, wonderful, everlasting, banishing weariness and sense of time.\u00a0 No longing for anything now or hereafter as we go home into the mountain’s heart.”<\/p>\n

—John Muir<\/strong> – “My First Summer in the Sierra”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One of the easily accessible alpine lakes in the high Sierra, Tenaya Lake<\/a> is also one of the most spectacular. Named after Yosemite Ahwahneechee Chief Tenaya, it is nestled in a granite basin surrounded by soaring granite domes, peaks, and lodgepole forests. Along Hwy 120 (Tioga Pass Road)<\/a>, it is also a sports destination with hiking, swimming, and boating.<\/p>\n

What a magnificent scene! I regularly return to it both physically, and in my art doing plein air and studio paintings of the area. My last painting of the Tuolumne River is not far away<\/a>. Of course one of the main attractions is the unique Polly Dome which dips into the eastern part of the lake, and a controversy of the 1958 Tioga Road realigning<\/a>. It is considered one of the most scenic routes in all California and one of the most outstanding park roads in the entire National Park System.<\/p>\n

This scene is where Tenaya Lake starts to empty on it’s western side into Tenaya Creek, and eventually flows into Yosemite Valley where it joins with the Merced River.<\/p>\n

This is the third recently done, of what I am dubbing my “vertical water scenes”. I resurrected an old technique used often when painting acrylics, of painting the water from ground up, and then glazing over the top until you get to the surface. Of course it takes longer with oils as they have to dry between coats. Acrylics dry within minutes but oils can take up to a week to dry to the touch. I used Liquin<\/a> in this instance as a glazing medium and to speed up the drying time, and also to put a glossy glaze on the water. A space heater in my studio also helped!<\/p>\n

Here’s a few pictures as the painting progressed in the gallery below. Click on each photo to see a larger version. Email subscribers may have to click on the above title to see them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Here’s a couple of photos of me on a recent trip trip there doing a plein air piece…Click on each photo to see a larger version. Email subscribers may have to click on the above title to see them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Painting Tenaya <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Painting Tenaya <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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