Soaring out of sight again

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The other side of the mountain

Watercolour and crayon

©2015 Charlene Brown

Last May, I posted a painting of Lake Louise that didn’t include the top of the glacier above it.  

I hadn’t tried this before even though I’ve always thought the ‘topless’ effect evokes the precipitous nature of a mountain most forcefully, in Group of Seven Paintings for example. And I thought at the time that I’d probably try more paintings of mountains soaring out of sight.

This view from the Opabin Plateau includes the even more precipitous south face of the continental divide above Lake Louise – in my opinion among the most paintable string of mountains anywhere.