Lots of Coinscidences: These kinds of Mountains We Climb

I wished to share this in the blog which is so very odd like that things happened with this particular painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to do a painting simply just lately took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, therefore, the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a graphic that we desired to paint, since i was considering life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of a mountain, once we are decreasing in the top. I knew I needed it larger instead of perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked well. I really created a canvas. I knew before hand that this painting was going to be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was just a few hours with it around the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting when camping to the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I needed to finish the painting from memory. It was some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames which one in particular we had just acquired found mind. I ran into the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much an odd size!

But here is in which the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies ah. About the botton of the frame would have been a brass label. It had, alternatives framed a painting by Frederic Remington, called “The Way Down” and featured a string of pack mules descending a mountain side.

Sound strange!?
1. The Plein air painting I had created done in the main 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, waiting for new life, off to the inside in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in daily life, your way over the shadows and mountain highs. Which has been a little bit element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame we became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was about the decent down a mountain side, where in the title could be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though had not visit my knowledge until following your painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for reasons unknown, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We have not a clue!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back from the painting and you will be sold using the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!