Look at the Ordinary and Find Extraordinary
“Morning Ice” original acrylic painting by Gail Niebrugge, sold.
When seeking inspiration sometimes artists forget to look at the the ordinary everyday things that surround their lives, and end up frustrated searching for grandiose or bigger than life subject matter. Stop, look, and observe the same subject at another time of day, in a different light, from a dissimilar perspective, or in unusual weather. I find this method often will change the very ordinary into something extraordinary. Thus is the case with the painting “Morning Ice”.
In the spring and fall when the Copper River finally slows and recedes, it is my habit to take daily walks on the new found shoreline. I love to explore the river bed strewn with rocks, boulders, sand bars, driftwood, and uprooted vegetation, and find parts and pieces of fish wheels torn loose from moorings and dismembered by the swift current. But nothing equals the beauty of the patterns created by frozen puddles scattered along the rocky bottom during the crisp chill of early morning.
More tomorrow,
Gail Niebrugge, landscape artist
