Tag: Swiss Alps
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Green Tal landscape painting
In the words of travel writer Rick Steves, “If Heaven isn’t what it’s cracked up to be, send me back to Gimmelwald.” I spent four days in this area last summer hiking and sketching; it felt like an isolated paradise floating above the rest of the world. One always had a sense of the height…
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Blue Ridge oil painting
Here’s a painting from my trip to the Swiss Alps last summer. We stayed in Gimmelwald in the Bernese Oberland Region. My husband and I joked that every place we stood was a 45 degree angle. This painting became about the sharp angles of the mountains. I tried to balance the negative slope of the…