Too Many Coinscidences: These Mountains We Climb

I wanted to share this inside a blog which is simply so very odd this way things happened with this painting and frame.
In 2008 I did so a painting simply just lately removed it from your stretcher bars. The painting was a bizarre size, and the stretcher bar frame just sat away and off to the medial side within the studio. A couple weeks ago, I’d a graphic i wished to paint, since i was thinking of life’s difficulties and incapable of overcome. The picture was of an mountain, even as are decreasing from the top. I knew I needed it larger and never perfectly square. The 26″ x 32″ stretcher bar frame was very beneficial. I really made a canvas. I knew ahead of time the painting would be called “These Mountains We Climb”.

I was only a few hours involved with it on the first day. The 2nd day, I took the painting beside me to the beach and was able to loose the photo reference. I had to finish the painting from memory. It turned out some epic struggle in memory!

We been discussing frames and this one inch particular that people had just acquired found mind. I ran as a result of the frame shop and LO! it fit! how much of an odd size!

But here is where the story gets interesting, the frame originated from Christies auction house. About the botton from 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 carried out in the first 26″ x 32″ stretcher bars was called “Inspiration”, but was later removed and so they sat, waiting for new life, off to the side in my studio.
2. “These Mountains We Climb” is a painting about our battles in daily life, your journey through the shadows and mountain highs. That was somewhat element of the painting itself- having lost the reference!
3. It happened to fit the frame that we became of have down within the frame shop.
4. The Remington painting happened to be in regards to the decent down a mountain side, wherein the title might be taken more than one way. Which coincided with mine, though we had not come to my knowledge until following the painting was completed and framed.
Sometimes it is like either the “stars align” or that i really enjoy seeing, this frame was designed for this painting. Why?! I’ve no idea!! But there it really is! Incidentally, the label is attached to the back from the painting and are sold with all the painting. Things don’t really ever happen this way- fun stuff!