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Mendenhall’s Domain

January 18, 2017 by alaskanraven

Mendenhall’s Domain
12″ x 9″ watercolor by Raven
$600.
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I stare at a skyscraper wall of ice from behind my easel.
Mendenhall Glacier taunts me.
A chunk of ice calves revealing a scar of brilliant color. I search for the right color and splash cobalt teal on the hungry watercolor paper.
The steel cold water is formidable.

What is that movement? My binoculars find a canoe sailing full of brave souls.
Perfect! NOW I can help you see just how large that glacier really is.
My paper can only hold a a small piece of the thundering monolith.

This painting received 1st place the next day in the Great Alaskan Plein Air Retreat competition. It gave me new brushes, new frames and cash.
But the best part is the priceless memory of painting
near the shadow of this glorious glacier
on the solstice in Juneau, Alaska.

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Alaskan Raven Studio
PO Box 80231
Fairbanks, Alaska 99708
USA
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Represented by:
Well Street Art Co.
1302 Well Street
Fairbanks, Alaska
907 452-6169

Stephan Fine Arts
939 West 5th Ave.
Anchorage, Alaska 99501
USA
(907) 274-5009
http://www.stephanfinearts.com/

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I ventured to Alaska before there was an oil pipeline and fell in love with the gnarly spruce trees, intense weather and mountains I could touch. Very different from the landscape in St. Louis. I was looking for different. The spruce trees: those scraggy, wizened, lanky conifers danced onto the first page of my sketch […]

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