This fall I worked outside painting the light in the Snoqualmie Valley. We live about 30 miles outside the city of Seattle, WA in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. For this series I tried to capture a harmony of light, or envelope of light, as my landscape instructor, Mitch Albala calls it.
In his book, Landscape Painting, Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice, Albala said, "A painting, of course, is not illuminated from within or enveloped by atmosphere, as is the actual landscape. It exists on a two-dimensional surface and can only reflect light. But the harmony and unifying effects of atmosphere can be imported into our paintings by using strategies that emphasize the similarities among colors, showing that there is a shared essence of every color in every other color."
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