Rock Dam, 2006
oil pastel, 13" x 16"
There is an amazing road that winds it way back to Tate City, Georgia that has about a million great places to pull off and climb down into the upper Tallulah River and explore. There are so many things to draw and photograph in some places that deciding where to start is difficult. This is one such spot that had me challenged, with so many great rocks and the water doing all kinds of things around me. I set up on a rock looking up into the rushing cascades and caught the view of the rock with a round hole bored into it. I sat and drew until the afternoon sun behind me made working in oil pastels too difficult. It wasn't a warm day but the sun and the oil combined to make a bigger mess than usual on my paper. I continued working the image in the studio for the next week and finished it off.
