Growler
29 June 2026
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
I had watched nature show recently about the oceans. I also had a black canvas open so I thought I'd try a moonlit glacier with strong reflections. I have loved Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice since the first time I've seen it so glaciers are often in my mind. I also love his The Abbey in the Oakwood and Monastery Cemetery in Snow but those are unrelated. Monastery was destroyed but I was fortunate to see The Abbey. As you can see in the gif below, I struggled with the glacier and its colors quite a bit. I love the water and reflections almost from the get-go. Black frames are hard to photograph (as you can also see in the gif). I was going to cover some of the moon with clouds, but the Moon is cool so I left it bare. The title is an actual term. Growlers are small fragments of glacially derived ice that has broken off an iceberg or glacier.
A gif showing the process/stages - about 17 days had passed.
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