The Arctic Circle Expedition – Part 2

By the way, I had two very simple goals for my time on the Antigua in the Arctic Circle…

1. Soak up the frozen landscape: I was mainly looking forward to seeing glaciers and lots of ice and was certainly not disappointed!
2. Paint my abstracts: I committed to painting smaller abstracts (12 x 12” and smaller) for my Expedition Backers (from Kickstarter) and completed them just before the end of the trip.
   Now begins the project to get them all sealed with spray varnish/fixative and ready to ship out in November!

Here’s a snapshot from the ship as we departed a calm but cold fjord (Ymerbukta) on the second day.

The water in this fjord was calm enough to start freezing… you can just see the thin frozen layer in this snapshot. Every day was a new opportunity to soak up the frozen landscape around Svalbard!

The Antigua from a hike up to a glacier in Esmarkbreen.

I’m still working through all of the over 800 snapshots I took with my little travel camera, so will have more to post soon!

 

New Alex Grant Music!

Alex sent me an email last week that he now has new music on his film-scoring site here.  I listen to Alex Grant’s music in my studio ALL THE TIME.  Here’s what he said about his latest music:

“When Elephants Dream” was composed for a British documentary about elephants.  For part of the inspiration for this piece, I was thinking about the description of “Rosie” from the book “Water For Elephants”.  She apparently would smile when doing something mischievous!

Alex Grant