Lakelse Lake with a double rainbow
This is the beginning W.I.P. of a fall scene that’s from photos at a lake where I drive by every week with my grandson. We often stop for lunch on our way home from the town next to ours if the weather permits. We usually take a light snack and there are people swimming and boating in the summer but this is an autumn scene when the leaves had turned and the lake was quite calm with the end of a rainstorm still sprinkling the lake. I’m hoping to include a double rainbow which I’ve never painted before, but I have numerous photos from our rainy coastal climate. This acrylic is on a large (30” x 40”) gesso board. I’m not sure how the rainbow will work out but we will see as we progress. The main photo is from a light rainy fall day and the rainbow will be from several other photos of local weather displays that show the double rainbows. The photo I’m using of the lake isn’t including a double rainbow so I’m using my other photos that show the peculiarities of this phenomenon. Since I’ve been doing watercolours for the last several months, I haven’t touched the acrylics. I would have went with the watercolours for this except for the limited size of my supply of watercolour pads…not to mention that I already have a frame for this size as well.