Lots of Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I desired to share this within a blog because it’s so very odd that way things happened using this type of painting and frame.
In 2008 Used to a painting and just just recently took it off from your stretcher bars. The painting was an odd size, and so the stretcher bar frame just sat off and away to along side it within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I had created a photo which i desired to paint, because I was considering life’s difficulties and can not overcome. The style was of an mountain, even as we are decreasing from your top. I knew I want to it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame worked great. So I developed a canvas. I knew beforehand the painting would certainly be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I only agreed to be a couple hours involved with it around the first day. The next day, I took the painting when camping on the beach and were able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It absolutely was some epic struggle in memory!

We happened to be discussing frames this also one inch particular that individuals had just acquired came to 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 came from Christies ah. Around the botton of the frame would be 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 Classical impressionism I needed done in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and they also sat, expecting new life, off and away to along side it in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is often a painting about our battles in life, the journey from the shadows and mountain highs. That was slightly a part of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It became of fit the frame that people happened to have down inside the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting was regarding the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title may be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not arrived at my knowledge until as soon as the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that for whatever reason, this frame was created for this painting. Why?! We have no idea!! But there it is! Incidentally, the label is coupled to the back with the painting and are sold with the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!