Original work – Canyon Creek November Ice

Original Artwork Title: ‘Canyon Creek – November Ice’

Original colored pencil drawing size – 11 x 14″

Cold November days allow water to transition from liquid to solids. I grabbed my camera and went out to a local creek to get some images of water and snow. There are several drawing surfacing in my mind from that day but the first to show itself on paper is this sunlit crystal of ice hanging off a random fallen branch. I love the contrast of snow, rocks and flowing water.

In choosing this subject, I initially imagined it to be one of the “easier” ones to start with. Well gee, this ended up absorbing close to 50 hours of actual drawing and maybe, another 40 looking at it and visualizing what needed to happen before going back in to add more.