z SOLD ~ Alps Snow Capped Mountains Aerial View Original Oil Landscape Painting

The Alps 35 x 25 cm (almost 14 x 10 inches) oil on canvas board, framed as shown by Kelly Borsheim, signed SOLD, private collection in Texas      Winter . . . in the mountains.  Magical, even if dangerous.  The snow-capped mountaintops of the Swiss Alps are gorgeous, especially when side lit by a setting sun.  This original painting is inspired by an aerial view of the rugged Swiss Alps.       A bright purple was painted over the whole canvas as a campitura (overall field color).  It was thoroughly dry before I then took a palette knife with white to spread on some triangles, building up texture a wee bit as I went along.  I then added the soft clouds moving in and out of or spilling over the pointed peaks. The Alps      The color combination I wanted to explore was purple, blue, and orange.  The cool colors were quite saturated, so I muted the oranges into a warm, almost neutral hue to use in the light areas of the clouds that sometimes appeared as cascading waterfalls over the rug