Crater Lake. My first impression was how overwhelmingly blue it is. The rim trail goes from here over to the other side of the island, and then connects with the PCT after 8 miles or so. It's technically a PCT alternate, but only the most pure redliner would skip it.
#art #watercolor #MastoArt #WizardIsland #CraterLake #nationalpark #pct #pct2021 #hiking #oregon
The monument at the end of the Pacific Crest Trail.
#pct2021 #pct #PacificCrestTrail #Monument #borderCut #MastoArt #art #watercolor #hiking
Inside the tunnel at Tunnel Falls on the Eagle Creek Trail. Watercolor 7.5" by 7.5"
#art #MastoArt #drawing #painting #watercolor #pct2021 #pct #Tunnel #TunnelFalls #EagleCreekTrail #PacificCrestTrail #cave
Scenes from the North Cascades. I saw the marmot moving through the grass north of Glacier Peak, and the fat pika calmly regarded me from the rockfall at Hopkins Pass five miles south of the Canadian border last September.
Watercolor on paper, 4.5" x 6"
#art #MastoArt #drawing #watercolor #marmot #pika #rockfall #AnimalArt #PCT #hiking #hikerart #PacificNorthwest #pct2021 #paintingiguess #yellow
Here's a set of small sketches of alpine meadows in Washington and Oregon.
3.5" x 5"ish pen and watercolor on paper.
(why is the convention height then width? That's the opposite of what you might expect if you are mathy.)
#mastoart #art #drawing #sketch #pct2021 #pacificnorthwest #landscapes #watercolor #trees
One of the most surprising things about the PCT for me was how many burnt stretches of trail there are. The ones in Oregon and Washington tend to have dense fields of fireweed.
#art #mastoart #pct2021 #forest #tree #snags #burntforest #fireweed #burn #pct #watercolor #hikerart #drawing #painting #pacificnorthwest
Here's a failed drawing of Glacier Peak, and some studies I did afterward to look for a brush stroke more evocative of evergreens, and one where I kinda got it right. Now to fix the composition and tone. (my lived experience of the mountains is that everything is 100% saturated all the time, but I don't think that works as a painting approach) A lot of drawing feels like completely failing all the time, which typically doesn't get posted.
Donomore cabin and outhouse on the PCT just south of the Oregon border, last August.
#pct2021 #pct #hiking #pacificcresttrail #donomore #donomorecabin #watercolor #drawing #painting #watercolorpainting #landscape #mastoart #cabin #outhouse
May 14, 2021. I decide to go up Baden Powell because it's part of the PCT, even if it's a dead end this year. This 1500 year old tree, improbably named Wally is near the top.
#pct2021 #pct #mtbadenpowell #pacificcresttrail #limberpine #wallywaldron #art #watercolor #hiking
PCT, May 8, 2021. I'm north of Big Bear. It's hot and dry and I wonder what I'm doing in a place like this. There is a stump that interests me enough to take a picture, and then try to paint it. Twice.
#pct2021 #art #drawing #treestump #stump #hikerart #deepcreek #watercolor
Ben Bittner
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