Alps in color

This is the landscape of the second tonal sketch from before, now in color. I am quite happy with the way it  turned out. A perfect place to end my alpine series. It is snowing outside and maybe I should turn to painting warmer places....

Below Eiger 2

This is a second attempt of this landscape... not substantially different from the first one.

Alps - tonal sketches

Two tonal sketches of Alpine landscapes. The first I tried painting a few days ago, and may attempt again. The second is a really nice composition. I thought this would be a good exercise for me as I  keep having trouble with the color values.
For the first one I tried mixing Payne's gray with raw sienna, to make the color warmer.  It turned out that the raw sienna sediments and comes out much stronger in the darker shades. Not a good combination of pigments.In the second one I used just Payne's gray.

Below the Eiger

Hiking trails below the Eiger in the Bernese Oberland

Above Grindelwald 2

A second variation on the same landscape...

Above Grindelwald

Autumn in the meadows under First, in the Grindelwald area

Above Zermatt

The cluster of log cabins at the end of the path turned out to be a cozy alpine restaurant. The trail continues downhill to Zermatt, about an hour away.

Gimmelwald

Walking in the Bernese Oberland  from Muren to the village of Gimmelwald one passes through very steep meadows filled with beautiful wild flowers. Little log cabins and dark green rows of  pines break the lush green color. Add to that the cowbell sound.... Beautiful!

Matterhorn

This is how we saw the peak on a June morning a year ago.