Mt Hood in watercolor and better stuff by others

I brought my watercolors because they are easy to travel with. Painted Mt. Hood. I'm okay happy with it. I was able to leave white for the snow. The proportions need work (as if I'll ever be there again) but overall the snow, the mountains, and the trees are okay. The sky got a little bloom-y but it's okay by me.
(I think I'll cut and paste a bit from my travel blog about this day, next, and add a bit more detail on the Timberline Lodge artwork).

While in Oregon for MaiKia's wedding, I went to Mt Hood and the Timberline Lodge. I went to the Mountain walked up to a good spot and started painting with the watercolors. It seemed like a good way to focus on the mountain by looking at it and to be outside in the 6000 feet elevation air and sun. People were skiing and snowboarding and ice climbing. Temps were 60's and only one chair lift was working and some people looked like they were walking up and skiing down.

The Timberline Lodge was finished in 1937 and was a WPA project. The original rugs in rooms were made from strips of cloth from the old WPA worker uniforms. Original chunky wood furniture, iron-work, fireplaces. . .  and almost lost to disrepair. Lovely building. I would love to spend a night there. Actually, I would love to spend nights in all the WPA parks lodges. There must be a guide book somewhere. I had lunch here and looked around as much as I could and there was even a virtual geocache here.

There was a lot of artwork in the building: WPA oil on wood and oil on canvas paintings and many by C.S. Price and Howard Sewall and Darryl Austin. Looked like the paintings were done with a palette knife and not a brush. Great murky colors. There was another room with sporting murals, by Douglas Lynch, like wallpaper but thicker. I thought it was leather. But it was off-white linoleum! Lines of the drawings were incised with a knife and then the colors were layered over in glazes with shellac in between each layer to fix them.

darryl austin
the dishwashers

charles edward heaney
The Mountain

douglas lynch
linoleum mural, Timberline Lodge, Mt Hood, OR