Banff National Park Peyto Lake Rainbow

They Ask Me Why I Do This...With a Painting. This was captured a few years ago while hiking a little ways up a mountainside from the main Peyto Lake overlook in this part of Banff National Park along the Icefields Parkway in Alberta. Earlier that afternoon, a friend and I had taken in the first hints of the rainbow going across this glacial valley. I'd also wanted to spend some time walking up part of this mountainside from a trip a few years prior. Both the rainbow and a chance to hike seemed that perfect way to spend a day with my Nikon SLR camera. I posted the original image here on Flickr (www.flickr.com/photos/markcstevens/albums/72157674275496173).

And now some information on the digital painting I did on my iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil while working with Adobe’s new app Fresco. I hadn't had a chance to really open and play around with that app for several months. One of the things that I really liked about it was the use of what Adobe calls live brushes. That makes oils and watercolors...well, it just gives the feel and look of working with a brush on a canvas. Colors mix like they might do on a board and not just an RGB mixed. So that's what I worked with initially in letting colors blend or not blend and layering one on top of the other to create patterns seen that afternoon and on the image captured. Where this really came out was when I was painting the skies and could mix different hues with the blue skies. In a sense it was like allowing me to have blotches of purples, greens, and yellows in different spots (www.creativebloq.com/advice/5-simple-tips-for-painting-be...). Clouds were also much easier to work with and mix with the different shades and tones (www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=tN1J47FcNH8). I definitely could use some more practice, but it is fun digitally painting again after the break I took late last year!

In the right center foreground of the painting, you'll find that stick figure image of me "hiking" with my Cubbies hat, loving my time exploring the Icefields Parkway and Canadian Rockies :-)

Taken in: Canada / Alberta / Saskatchewan River Crossing (show map)

Taken on: March 1, 2020

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Trip to Alberta and British Columbia

Icefields Parkway

Peyto Lake

Lake

Looking North

Caldron Peak

Mount Patterson

Looking NNW

Silverhorn Mountain

Mount Weed

Mount Noyes

Blue Skies

Blue Skies with Clouds

Outside

Nature

Landscape

Sunny

Rocky Mountains

Canadian Rockies

Mountains

Mountains in Distance

Mountains off in Distance

Trees

Evergreens

Hillside of Trees

Rainbow

Glacial Flour

Glacial Lake

Glacial Valley

Valley

Snowcapped

Highway 93

Walk to Peyto Lake Overlook

Mountain Valley

Traveling Icefields Parkway

Traveling the Icefields Parkway

Continental Divide

Looking to Continental Divide

Looking to Mountains of the Continental Divide

Central Main Ranges

Waputik Mountains

North Waputik Mountains

Central Front Ranges

Murchison Group

Spreading Peak

Peyto Lake Overlook

Partly Sunny

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