Okanagan Lake Provincial Park 2007

We arrived by motorboat and walked up the lakeshore towards Okanagan Park above. It hadn't been raining there for many weeks and the park was very dry. In this impressionistic oil painting, I left those pretty late summer wildflowers and the landscape looking rough and spontaneous like expressionism. The colors of the flowers were mostly yellow, but there were many in pale white, creamy-beige's and pinks. Everything looked so dusty that day and even those wildflowers and grasses were soft and pastel like. I painted this one at the end when we were back down by the boat and many more in that style up in the parkland. I find this composition interesting with the horizon line skewed and I love the way it will draw the viewer to the top.