14: Ice Painting –December 2010; Oil on canvas 18’’X24

I had spent the summer in Alaska where I learned how to ice climb for a few days on the Matanuska Glacier. This painting is of a 75 foot crevasse that I climbed out of. I experimented with impasto using only a pallet knife to mock the texture of the ice as it crumbled with each whack of the axe.