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| Bear Patrol (under Painting) 12 x 16 |
At the end of this summer I had the opportunity to attend a special adult training camp for the leaders of our Stake. The training camp is called Wood Badge. It was held up in the beautiful and stunning mountains east of Spring City and Mount Pleasant Utah. We were at Camp Tifie, which is apart of the Mountain Dell Scout Camp. I spent a week with my wife and many leaders from my Stake camping in tents and learning how to be better leaders and more how to be better people as a whole. At the beginning of this experience when you first arrive you are given a name tag with a colored dot on the back. There were for our camp six different colors. We soon found ourselves divided into six various groups now called patrols. Each patrol is represented by a different animal. Beavers, Bobwhites, Eagles, Foxes, Owls, Bears, Buffalo and Antelopes. Like I said we only had six patrols so no Buffalo or Antelopes in our wood badge course. Now once you are assigned a patrol you are that patrol for life. So my wife will always be an Eagle (she says it will be the only way she will ever be an Eagle Scout) and I will always be a Bear.
Well I decided to do a series of wild life paintings based upon the various animal patrols. So naturally, since I'm a Bear I'm starting with the Bear Patrol. Then of course next will be the Eagle Patrol, then I'll follow them in patrol order, Beaver through Antelope.
What we see above is just the under painting, painted in two colors, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umber. The whole thing is done quick and rough. It is to do several things but mostly for me it is to setup the tonal range. Next as usual I will be painting back to front and top to bottom. So the sky and distant mountains is the next step.
