DECEMBER 5 - 9, 2018 PART I
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 Today -- Dec. 9, 2018 – is the kind of day Kent occasional experienced this time of year while on Fox Island. The temperature hovers between ten and twenty degrees. The sea may be relatively calm, but after his recent trip to Seward there’s little need to return. Steamers with mail won’t arrive again for a few more weeks. It’s the kind of day that often arrives after a time of hard and steady rain. It’s the kind of day that raises your hopes, feeds your spirit, and gives you the inspiration to endure life’s hardships. It’s sometimes foreshadowed – as it was last night – by a star-filled sky with a shining moon and occasionally a stunning Aurora or Northern Light’s show. For Kent, days like this also mean more light for his painting. On the gloomy, dark days he’s forced to sketch and work in black and white. Now he can capture the impressive yet subtle and rapidly changing colors of s...