Moonrise Over Mt Tabor Portland Oregon Through Golden Smog

[markseibold (Mark Seibold)]

had intended to sketch from Mt Tabor in central Portland Tuesday night August 4th but instead allowed the public to observe the moonrise through the Nexstar 5i. I returned home later to begin the sketch at midnight till about 2 AM Wednesday morning.

Details slowed the finishing process, so I continued on Wednesday night until clouds stopped me. Some final touches of color and foreground were completed indoors. This was possibly the most intense use of color blending I have as yet attempted. The stagnant golden smog over Portland Tuesday night into Wednesday morning rendered the moon high in the south as if it were under rising color close to the horizon.

Observed through a Nexstar 5i, Coulter Odyssey 10.1" Newtonian and binoculars.

Sketch is rendered on 19 X 25" black Strathmore Artagain paper with various pastel chalks. The moons disc a few hours before full is sketched at 15 1/2" in diameter.

The work is also in NASA's Spaceweather.com front page as of yesterday Aug 7th ~ 8th

Mark
www.markseibold.com

[renormalised (Carl)]

That is a fantastic sketch!!!!. Well done

[Quark (Trevor)]

A lovely sketch Mark,

It has a really Earthy feel to it, love the colours and the effect.

Regards
Trevor

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Hi Mark.
Well done again. The colour blending looks good to me, and that fact that you enjoy sketching really comes out in your efforts.
The detail is very nice and the foreground also adds to it.
Good work again.

Geoffro.

[markseibold (Mark Seibold)]

thanks Renormalised, Trevor and Geoff

Yes, I have done so many large pastels of the moon now, I wonder when I will go back to anything else in the sky.

As a young astronomer, I avoided the moon; now I find its surface so intriguing with so many features, its constantly dynamic array of details makes for a real test of an artists ultimate challenge.

Unfortunately, tonight we have clouds and constant rain in Portland; so we are missing the record predicted Perseids Meteors!

Mark

www.markseibold.com
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