Liberty Bell Mountain

Some years ago, after teaching a workshop in Anacortes, WA, we planned to visit our son, then living in Kelowna, B.C. Our new Anacortes friends suggested we take the North Cascades Highway instead of the interstate, as it’s more picturesque. They were so right, and it turned out to be a terrific trip, as we encountered some spectacular landscapes of high granite peaks and turquoise lakes. I even found a bit of time to sketch along the way.

I’ve always wanted to go back to painting some of the scenes from that day. And recently, I had a good reason to go back. As part of my Peaks and Valleys launch week events, yesterday I used a quarter sheet to paint Liberty Bell Mountain, captured in a photo from that drive. If you’d like to see my process for painting this — from value sketch to drawing to final painting — I will be posting all the steps tomorrow in my launch week email update. If you’re not on my email list you can sign up here.

I hope you enjoy seeing the process as much as I loved revisiting that long-ago drive.