I have painted on rocks for a long time. Most of them were scenes of the North Shore, Minnesota. There were usually light houses sitting on the rocks and the presentations were pretty flat. This rock is a painting of a large rock formation that would sit along the Lake Superior. The rock textures are painted on there with enhancement of some of the natural texture of the rock.
This is a side view of the rock showing its natural surface. The painting was in progress when I took this photo.
I added a larger sea gull after I took this shot. Painting birds on the rocks really requires them to be more impressionistic, globs of paint that resemble a sea gull.
While I painted on the rock I had to lean it on another rock to be able to paint the bottom of it.
This is the back side of the rock showing how it looked before I started. My wife and I use to sit along the North Shore and paint the shoreline of the North Shore. I had plenty of memory resource to create the painting that I did on the front side of this rock. The rocks along the shore are made up of iron ore. If I didn't mention it before, these rocks were collected in the areas all along the shore from Duluth to Grand Marais.
This is an example of the pastel painting that I did along the north shore.
