The Finished Painting of The View of Mount Baldy

 

Yesterday I finally finished painting the last details on the view of Mount Baldy painting, which is from the vantage point of the San Bernardino Mountains.

Here I have added more trees to the foreground, which is the San Bernardino Mountains.
Here I have added more trees to the foreground, which is the San Bernardino Mountains.
I added boulders to the dark green hills on the left-hand side of the canvas.  The boulders were created with a peachy beige tint of oil paint.
I added boulders to the dark green hills on the left-hand side of the canvas. The boulders were created with a peachy beige tint of oil paint.

The video below shows what this painting looks like when you are standing right next to it. I especially liked how the ridges in the paint on the mountains mimicked actually ridges spotted on Mount Baldy in the distance. So it was quite exciting to create a piece of local inspired art, which is based on the view I beheld every day on my walks up in the San Bernardino Mountains. You are probably wondering how one mountain range can look so prominent from another. The reason is the Lake Arrowhead vicinity is around 5,000 feet in elevation, and Mount Baldy, which has a proper name of Mount San Antonio, is 10,064 feet. Some people do not realize we have such towering mountain ranges here in Southern California, and Mount San Gorgonio is at 11,503 feet in elevation.

The Mount Baldy Painting

Here is the completed painting, which features the view of Mount Baldy from the San Bernardino Mountains.

This video illustrates what the finished oil painting looks like as it is drying.